Speed up computer start-up

Slow computer startup is a problem troubling most computer users. It’s a common wish to make computers start faster. During the process of using computers I summarize some ways to speed up computer start-up, here to share with you.

1. BIOS settings optimization
From the BIOS setup page, enter “Advanced BIOS Features” option, move the cursor to “Frist Boot Device” option, press the “PageUP” and “PageDOWN” to choose, default value is “Floppy”, which means the system reads information beginning with the floppy drive when starts computer. This will lengthen the start-up time and shorten the life of the floppy drive. So we have to choose “HDD-0″ to start directly from the hard disk. In addition, in the BIOS settings, it’s suggested to disable “Above 1MbMemoryTest”and enable “QuickPowerOnSelftest”.
The settings in “Advanced Chipset Features” are significant in acceleration. Change the setting of “Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing” from “8ns/10ns” to “Fast” or “Turbo”. “Turbo” is faster than “Fast”, but less stable, “Fast” recommended.
For memories of good quality, it’s recommended to set “SDRAM CAS Latency” as “2″, which can speed up start-up.
Many motherboards support AGP4X, so enable “AGP-4XMode”.

2. Start the DMA mode, improve hard drive speed
Hard disks using UDMA/33, UDMA/66, or UDMA/100 technology respectively have a maximum transfer rate of 33MB/s, 66MB/s, 100MB/s. Theoretically, the transfer rate of these hard disks is 3 to 6 times of that of IDE hard disks. But in Windows the default settings of DMA is disabled. So you need to enable it.
Open “Control Panel → System → Device Manager” window, unfold ‘disk drives’ branch, double-click the hard disk icon of UDMA, go to “Properties → Settings → Options” tick “√” the “DMA” item then press OK. Close all dialog boxes and restart your computer.

3. Remove the Windows boot logo.
First you have to open the “Start” → “Settings” → “Folder Options”. In the “Advanced Settings” of “View” tag, tick “Show all files.” Then open the C disk, find this file “MSdos.sys”, and cancel its “read only” attribute. Open it and add a statement: LOGO=0” in the “Option” phase.and with one statement: LOGO = 0. Then Windows boot logo will not be loaded, which reduces the start-up time by several seconds.

4. Optimize the “Startup” items.
Beginners love to try some computer software programs, but remove them after a while. For some reasons unknown, the software still resides in the “startup” projects, which greatly lengthen the start-up time. It’s easy to solve this problem. You can go to “Start” → “Run” and input the command “msconfig” to bring up the “System Configuration Utility Programs”, click on the “Startup” tab, and remove the “√” from any programs you do not want to be loaded. Thus, shorten at least the start time by 10 seconds.