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How To Make Windows Boot Faster

ztr3ngth — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:16:15 +0000

Disable Windows Error Report

ztr3ngth — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:27:40 +0000

When a program crashes in Windows, by default a message box appears asking if you would like to report the error to Microsoft. 99.9% of PC users never do and never will which therefore makes this feature unnecessary and time consuming. Windows Error Reporting’ (also known as ‘Problem Reporting’) can be disabled in a few simple steps:

Go to the Start menu > Control Panel
Click System and Maintenance
Click Problem Reports and Solutions
On the left hand panel, click Change Settings then Advanced Settings
Under “For my programs, problem reporting is:” select Off
Click OK on both screens then exit the Control Panel

You may also be interested in our article on Disabling Vista’s User Account Control and Disabling Vista’s Sidebar.

Make Windows Startup Faster

ztr3ngth — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:56:34 +0000

Since Windows XP, Microsoft have allowed us to defragment our Windows Startup files. Defragmenting your Startup files basically puts all the files needed to boot your PC up, next to each other. This means your system doesn’t have to search around looking for the files needed to run Windows.

Take not that another fast method of achieving faster windows startup times is to wipe your hard drive clean. You might also want to take time to defragment your hard drive for an extra cut in windows startup times.

1. Click on Start, then Run

2. Type Regedit and click OK

3. Look for “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftDfrgBootOpt imizeFunction”

4. Check Enable

5. Right click on the name in step 3, and click Modify

6.Edit the value to “Y to enable” then OK

7. Reboot your PC and see the difference!

Windows Startup Programs:

Stopping unnecessary background programs from running as your PC starts up can speed the process up massively. Removing background programs is also a very good way of removing lag from Modern Warfare 2, along with all other games and software. Here are a few quick steps to quickly change startup programs:

Run a search on your PC for “msconfig”. Once loaded it will look like this:

Click on the Startup tab and now you will see that every ticked program on the list loads up every time you log in.

Click OK.

The next time you log back in to your PC, depending on the amount of programs you unchecked, it will be a lot faster. When you remove unnecesary programs from loading at startup, not only will your pc boot faster, but it will also enable other programs to run faster, as your PC will have less programs to manage.