Speed Up Windows, Boot Time & Make Windows Faster

Waiting for your computer to boot, can be a painful process. Do you remember, how fast boot-up process of your old PC was a couple of years ago? Although, Microsoft has possessed to speed-up the boot process, but it still required to be polished. Whatever the cause, there are lots of ways to help speed up Windows and make your PC work better even without upgrading your hardware. Here are some tips to help you optimize Windows for faster performance and cope up with long boot.

Speed Up Windows, Boot Time & Make Windows Faster

Here, a few recommendations you can follow to speed-up your Windows boot time. After having Windows loaded, I detected that the boot time was not as rapid as I would like. So after some groundwork, I could come up with some solutions, in order to speed up windows. No matter how fast your PC boots, it's still not fast sufficient.

Effective Ways to Speed Up Windows Boot Times

If there’s one thing everyone dreads, it’s rebooting their computer. It may only take a minute or two, but it can seem like forever. There are a number of simple tweaks and tools that you can use to speed up windows to boot. Here are our top tweaks that’ll make your computer boot a little faster and to let you walk away faster after shutdown. With belief on your system and how it's set up, you may see a reasonably faster start-up rate, or you may speed up boot time dramatically. I got improvement ranging from a little over 3 seconds instead of 27 seconds. Here’s how to maximize your startup time and find out which programs are slowing you down in Windows.

This guide will show you, how to shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn ON your computer. First of all, restart your PC and look at the required times to boot your PC.

Registry Edit

What you have to do is,Open Registry by...

Click on START >> RUN.
Type REGEDIT >> enter.
Browse folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Session Manager / Memory Management /PrefetchParameters / EnablePrefetcher.
Double click on "Enableprefetcher".
Paste 1 in Value Date, and Hexadecimal must be ON (enable).
Then restart the PC and look at the blue line and see how many times it goes.

Boot Defragment

If your boot files are closer with each other, it will take less time for your hard drive to search for the files, therefore, giving you a quicker boot time. This was empowered by default on my machine, but you will need to make sure you have the option enabled in the registry.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
You will want to set “enable” to “Y”.

Keep The Registry Clean

Windows registry can be a disaster. When programs install, they will formulate registry keys. When you uninstall the program, it will leave behind worthless registry keys. The solution is to use a pleasant, reliable, registry cleaner. Be cautious in which one you choose though because a bad cleaner could really screw up your system.

DON'T Clear or Delete Prefetch Folder

Advance warning: I've found many web sites suggesting a way of speeding up boot times that may, in fact, slow down the amount of time it takes to boot up, and almost certainly slow down application launching as well. That tip recommends going to your “C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch” directory and clearing it every week.Windows uses this directory as a way of speeding up launching applications.It examines the files you use during start-up and the applications you launch, and create an index where those files and applications are located on your hard disk. By using this index, windows launch files and applications faster. So, by emptying the directory, you are most likely slowing down launching applications. So we recommending you to NOT clear this prefetch folder ever.

In my tests, I've also found that after emptying the directory, it takes my PC a few seconds longer to get to my desktop after boot-up.

Limit Unnecessary Programs Run At Startup

The number of programs that are automatically loaded during Windows boot time causes a slow process. One of the most tried and true ways to speed up your boot process is to keep unnecessary programs from starting up with your computer. These various programs will automatically attempt to load during boot up, depending on what you have installed. You can do with following steps:

Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Esc.
open the Task Manager >> Startup tab.

Or for older windows:

Open the Start menu.
Type msconfig >> enter.

You’ll see all the programs that launch when you boot up your computer.

Bottom Line

Even managing your startup, it helps you see exactly how many seconds each startup item takes. Sometimes legit* programs end up having abnormal load times and this points you to them. You have to always clean and keep all data, files, folders up-to-date in order to get good performance from your machine called personal computer. We hope these tips have become effective to to speed up windows but if you have any of your own favorite tweaks, share them with us in the comments.

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