Vista - Speed up Computer Boot Time

1) Run Disk Defragment
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nevermind.. I just googled them both.. got it.. Thanks!

This would be a lot better if you gave at least a brief explanations as to what each of these steps is doing to your computer. For example, the 'No GUI Boot' and the sfc /scannow command.

Thanks for the tutorial!!!
My vista flying...

Excellent tutorial!

Here's my few cents;

Ccleaner is capable of nasty evil stuff...

NKProds nCleaner is a suitable replacement for ccleaner. Other than cleaning, it has some basic tweaks built-in too. Such as disable indexing, firewall, windows defender and dr watson (if you know what you're doing, and want a faster computer). It also has some other useful tweaks (and not so useful, research stuff before activating blindly).

Auslogics Disk Defrag is free, fast and better than the included MS defrag.

one thing i would add is a description of why a certain thing is beneficial; such as no gui boot and timeout 3 secs

Hi Methos,

The timeout time is how long Vista will wait for you at boot to select a different OS to boot from. Unless you dual boot with say Vista and XP, then this is a unneccessary amount of time to wait. See Option One here for more about this to.

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The no gui boot option is only good for using the Aurora boot screen instead of the default one. However, you must change back and use the default boot screen to be able see what is happening at boot when you run something like chkdsk or the Memory Diagnostic Test at startup.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I'd say the 30 second wait is totally unnecessary even if you dual boot... Personally I find 3 seconds is enough for me to choose something other than default should I need it. 30 seconds is pretty much the same as no timer at all for me. hehe.

Good point to Mike.

I am new vista user. most of my work is in unix. tried a few of the setting mentioned in tutorial. seemed to help speed up boot timing. thanks. Ron.