Although there are lots of software available to manage your startup and make your operating system booting fast, however you can use the windows native tool for managing startup program named 'msconfig'. It is more powerful utilities itself. this is sufficient for most computer user's needs. Windows Vista Support has done away with this tool and instead has replace it's startup programs manager with a more powerful tool built into Windows Defender.
To Access the Windows startup follow these steps:
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Click on Performance Information and Tools.
3. Click on Manage Startup Programs.
Another way to speed up your microsoft operating system booting process, is changing some windows registry settings. Boot defrag speeds up the startup process by placing the boot files next to each other. Some users may have this enabled already by default, but some have also noted that this is not the case after they had upgraded Windows. Ensure that you run a backup of your registry before making any changes.
To enable this process:
1. Go to "Start–>Run", type "regedit" in the box and hit enter.
2. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction”
3. Select "Enable" from the list on the right.
4. Right on it and select "Modify".
5. Change the value to "Y" to enable and "N" to disable.
6. Reboot your computer.
Changing some velue in booting file will also help to increasing booting time. Follow the following steps:
1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run…" & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run…" & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn’t have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer and you can see the difference
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