Comments on: How to Make Windows XP Boot Faster

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:41:21 +0000

I agree with Bob; your advice to remove hundreds of fonts (guilty!) sounds great, but that raises the questions: 1) where are they?; and 2)how do I remove them?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:55:49 +0000

John, I agree with what you said but I wasn’t sure how technical this site was and as you quite rightly say messing around with the registry and services can cause problems if not done correctly.

http://www.blackviper.com/ gives a fairly comprehensive list for most flavours of windows

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:21:21 +0000

You guys make valid points but should also consider talking about the bigger slowbugs that increase bootup time.

One using MSCONFIG and removing the many programs that auto start up everytime your computer boots up. Example program being printer software, instant messaging software and other little programs that always start up but you may never use.

Another is removing services from starting up that aren’t needed. I’d advice only people with knowledge in the technical field to modify the services.msc file.

And another would be modifying the registry to force auto shutdown when turning off your computer from 20 seconds (windows default) to 1 second. This will dramatically decrease shutdown time if you have antivirus programs that fight to stay on while your shutting down your computer.

Those are just a couple ones however I believe those are most valuable when it comes to decreasing bootup/shutdown times.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:21:14 +0000

I have never really been impressed with windows disk defrag. I feel that there are many free alternatives which do a much better job. I use JKdefrag or Smart defrag.

It may also be worth cleaning and defragging your registry for cleaning I quite like the quicksys options and or erunt

What would be nice if you could tell us a little more about ‘removing these fonts’ which slow everything down. I agree with you but could you be a little bit more specific about how!