Vista Tutorial - Boot Up

**Brink** · **OPTION ONE:**

How to Speed Up Vista Boot Up Time

Information

This will show you how to speed up just the boot up time to your desktop in Vista. Select the options that you feel comfortable doing and that apply to you.

Tip

For more ideas on how to speed up the performance of Vista, see: How to Speed Up the Performance of Vista

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OPTION ONE:
Change Time to Display List of Operating Systems

1. For how, see: How to Change the Default Boot Partition in Vista
A) Uncheck this option if you do not dual boot to save 30 seconds.
B) If you do dual boot, then select the default OS to boot into and lower the amount of time to wait for you to make a selection.

OPTION TWO:
Disable Create System Restore at Startup

NOTE

By default System Restore, if turned on, is scheduled to create a restore point at every system startup (At startup trigger) in Task Scheduler. If System Restore is turned on, then disabling this will save you time at startup.

1. For how, see Option Three (step 16) here: How to Change the Automatic System Restore Point Settings in Vista Task Scheduler

OPTION THREE:
Defrag the Registry

NOTE

Defragging the registry is like defragging the hard drive. It will help reorganize and condense the registry so it can be read quicker at startup. Usually doing this once a month is good.

1. Download and install the free Auslogics Registry Defrag program from:
Auslogics - Download Auslogics Registry Defrag

2. Run the program at least once a month to keep the registry defragmented.

OPTION FOUR:
Use Sleep Mode

NOTE

If you use your computer off an on a lot thoughout the day, then using Sleep mode instead of shutting the down computer will allow your computer to startup much quicker

1. Set your Power Options to use the recommended settings for Sleep mode.
NOTE: For how see STEP TWO (step 6) here: How to Troubleshoot a Vista Sleep Mode Problem and Find a Solution

OPTION FIVE:
Change the Number of Processors Used at Boot Up

NOTE

If you have a multiple core CPU (Ex: Intel Core Duo or Quad CPU) or multiple CPUs, then this will show you how to change the Number of Processors that will be used during boot up to help speed up the boot up time.

1. For how, see: How to Change the Number of Processors Used at Boot Up in Vista

OPTION SIX:
Disable or Remove Startup Programs

NOTE

While going through the list of startup programs on your computer, you should disable or remove the listed startup programs that you do not want or need to run at the startup of Vista. The less you have, the less time Vista will spend loading them at startup.

1. For how, see OPTION TWO here:How to Check and Change the Startup Programs in Vista

OPTION SEVEN:
Log on Automatically to a User Account

NOTE

By default Vista has you select and logon to a user account at startup. You can set Vista to automatically logon to a selected user account and boot to that user's desktop instead at startup. This will save you the time of manually doing it.

1. For how, see: How to Logon Automatically at Startup in Vista

OPTION EIGHT:
Disable the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM)

NOTE

If you do not use multiple monitors or connect a laptop to an external monitor, then disabling the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) can save you the 2-3 second delay followed by a blank black screen as Vista searches for monitor changes when you startup Vista.

1. For how, see: How to Disable or Enable the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) in Vista

OPTION NINE:
Disable Password Protection on Wakeup

NOTE

If you use Sleep mode from OPTION FOUR above and do not want password protection at wakup, then disabling the requirement to enter the user account password when the computer wakes up from sleep mode will save you startup time from having to do this.

1. For how, see: How to Disable or Enable Password Protection on Wakeup in Vista

That's it,
Shawn

**DjLevel9** · 12-29-2007

I took out the 30 seconds in the line down changed that to 5 secs that speed up the microsoft corporation green bar down 12 secs to 8 secs i use to count them it took to about 25 bars acrooss to load up into desktop lol the people at best buy Geek Sqaud where amaized how i fixed the manager said wanna job here i said NO lol

I said it was you're techs that changed my setting's in the first place told me to take all thease new updates that screwed up my computer and you have the nerve to keep them on as employee i said it won't last long sent all my note to microsoft on how they where minipulating peoples computer fourcing them to crash so they could bring them and charge the costomer and make money. lol

**DjLevel9** · 12-29-2007

I like the Vista Ultimate you can play games on it just have to update to the 32/64 bit it will play the games my friend here plays WOW war of warcraft and showed him how to get it working even wow was amaized how fast i get the programs to work on vista ultimate for them even the one who have the Ilegale vistas RTMS and sp1s lolol
cause microsoft said they where gonna Allow the hacked cracked version now lolol

**DjLevel9** · 12-29-2007

And on that NoteI wanna Smack those to that Do The PC Vs Mac Comericals wait untill mac can't use pcs software any more ehheehh

**Brink** · 12-29-2007

Hi DjLevel9,

I'm glad to hear it helped you.

You do have to admit that the PC vs Mac commercials are funny in how much they exagerate things to a point of being ridiculously simple.

Have a great New Years,
Shawn

**sidney1st** · 05-06-2008

To measure the effect on the modifications you made to speed up boot & shutdown in Vista, you will find attached a script which will display the reboot time of your computer.
Just rename the txt file with the vbs extension.

Sid.

**Brink** · 05-06-2008

Hi Sidney,

That's a great liitle tip there. You should create a tutorial on it. I will link it with this one so folks can use it to measure the difference.

Shawn

rockster · 05-15-2008

Hey I have an issue with this.

Using Method 2, every time I check "Make boot settings permanent", I get the prompt to continue or cancel, but after I click "Continue" my check disappears from the box and I do not get a reboot message.

Anyone help out with this?

**Brink** · 05-16-2008

Hi Rockster,

This is normal. When you click the Yes to continue, it automatically clears the check in the box. If you had already checked the Don't show this message again box in step 8 before, then you will not see that box again. GO ahead and restart the computer though to apply the changes.

Shawn

rockster · 05-16-2008

Yeah, thanks for the help. I was confused at first but then realized all my settings were changed once I hit the "Make Boot Settings Permanent" box. All is well, and Vista is running a lot better!