STEPS TO SPEED WIDOWS 7 BOOT TIME

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Sometimes it feels as though you could lay down and go to sleep before your Windows operating system finally starts and the frustration leads you toward wanting to know how to speed up Windows 7 boot time. As more and more programs are installed on your hard drive and the more you use your computer, the more memory and overall system resources that continue to get used. This very quickly slows down your system in every way from taking 30 minutes just to send an email all the way to taking what feels like forever just to get to the point where you are finally able to try and do something like send email. Here are 7 very easy and quick steps to speed up Windows 7 boot time so that you can get to what you want to do more quickly every time you start up your computer.

Step 1: The first step is to press and hold down the Win button. This can be found on the bottom left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys. While holding the Win button down press R. This will open the "run" dialog window.

Step 2: Type MSConfig into the box available to the right of "open". Once you do this click on the open button to begin the process. This will open another windows with various options on it.

Step 3: Next on our list of steps to speed up Windows 7 boot time is to click on the boot tab within the window that came up. Upon clicking the boot button, check to see how many operating systems are available and ensure to select the system that is used for booting up your system. This is only relevant for systems that use dual or multi-boot systems.

Step 4: After you have clicked on the boot tab and chosen the appropriate operating system to use you will need to locate and click on the advanced options button. This can be located directly below the window which lists all of the operating systems on your computer.

Step 5: Once the advanced options window pops up, the next step for being able to speed up Windows 7 boot time is to tick the check box at the top of the window labeled "number of processors". Once you have done this, click on the window directly below this and select the maximum number possible for the CPU core processors among the options available from the drop down list.

Step 6: Next you will need to click OK to exit this screen. Next you will need to click the Apply button. All that you need to do now is click the OK button on this window one more time.

Step 7: The only thing left to do in order to speed up Windows 7 boot time is to agree to restart your computer when asked to do so. You can also choose to wait until later and restart the computer yourself however, in order for the changes to take effect and speed up Windows 7 boot time you will need to restart your computer.

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