Decrease Bootup and shutdown time taken by your PC

Many Windows users frustrate due to their time taking start-up and shutdown processes  for those users following tips will be very useful.You can reduce your start-up and shutdown time drastically by just following the techniques mentioned below.

First technique:-Using Group policy Editor(gpedit.msc),Device management(devmgmt.msc) and a small .bat file

1. Go to Run(winkey+r) ->notepad and type “del c:windowsprefetchntosboot-*.* /q” (without the quotes).
2. Now save it as ntosboot.bat in “C” drive.
3. Once again go to run type gpedit.msc and press enter.
4. Under Computer Configuration you will find Windows Settings double click on it.
5. Now you will see shutdown on the right side window double click on it again then a new window will be appeared.

1. In the new window, click add, browse, locate your ntosboot.bat file click Open.
2. Click OK and press apply to save the modifications then press OK once again to exit.
3. Now once again go to Run type devmgmt.msc and press Enter.
4. Double click on IDE ATA/ATAPI controller.
5. Right click on Primary IDE Channel and select Properties.
6. Select the Advanced Settings tab then on the device or 1 that doesn’t have ‘device type’ greyed out select none instead of autodetect and click OK.
7. Right click on Secondary IDE channel, select Properties and repeat step 11.
8. Reboot your computer.

Second technique:-Using My System Configuration(msconfig)

1. Go to Run and type msconfig then press enter.
2. Now go to Boot.ini tab.
3. You will see a box labeled Timeout: and a numerical value 30 in it which is default  value.It means 30 seconds of wait time.
4. Change the value to 3 seconds.
5. Repeat step 1 and 2.
6. Click the No Gui Boot check box and click Ok.
7. Reboot and enjoy.

Note for step 4:-If you have more than one operating system in your PC then only this trick helps you.This reduces the wait time at the startup to the highlighted OS.

Note for step 6:-The no GUI  boot simply gets rid of the graphical moving bar during start-up. It saves a few seconds but without it you can’t know if your system is frozen during start-up.

Third technique:-Using Registry Editor(Regedit)

1. Go to Run and type regedit press enter.
2. Navigate to the following key in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SYSTEM->CurrentControlSet->Control ->SessionManager->MemoryManagement->PrefetchParameters.
3. Before manipulating your registry make a back up file(.reg file).
4. Change the value of EnablePrefetcher from 3 to 5.
5. Now you are done , close the registry editor window and restart your computer.

Fourth technique:-Using BootVis software

BootVis is a computer application that allows PC manufacturers to check how long a Windows XP machine takes to boot, and then to optimize the boot process, sometimes considerably reducing the time required. It was formerly a Microsoft  product, but it is no longer available from the company’s website.

What is it’s use ?

BootVis defines boot and resume times as the time from when the power switch is pressed to the time at which the user is able to start a program from a desktop shortcut. The application measures time taken during Windows XP’s boot or resume period. BootVis can also invoke the optimization routines built into Windows XP, such as defragmenting the files accessed during boot, to improve startup performance. This optimization is automatically done by Windows at three day intervals.

You can download it from web… just type bootvis download in google search

You can reduce your start-up and shutdown time drastically by just following the techniques mentioned below and by reviewing different registry cleaners

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