BOOST WINDOWS BOOTING

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Waiting for your computer to boot, can be a painful process.
Do you remember, how fast the boot-up process of your old XP box was a couple of years ago?
Although, Microsoft has possessed to speed-up the boot process, but it still required to be polished.

Here, a few recommendations you can follow to speed-up your Windows XP boot time.
After having Windows XP loaded, I detected that the boot time was not as rapid as I would like. So after some groundwork, I could come up with some solutions, in order to speed up. No matter how fast your PC boots, it's not fast sufficient.

Here is a trick to help you get to your desktop more rapidly after start-up, and to let you walk away faster after shutdown.
Placing reliance on your system and how it's set up, you may see only a reasonably faster start-up rate, or you may speed up boot time dramatically. I got improvement ranging from a little over 3 seconds instead 27 seconds.

This guide will show you, how to shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn ON your computer.

First of all, restart your PC and look at the blue line and see how many times it appears.

What you have to do is,Open Registry by.

1. Click start > RUN.

2. Type REGEDIT > enter.

3. Browse folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Session Manager / Memory Management /PrefetchParameters / EnablePrefetcher.

4. Double click on "Enableprefetcher"

5. Paste 1 in Value Date, and Hexadecimal must be ON (enable).

Then restart the PC and look at the blue line and see how many times it goes.

Boot Defrag: If your boot files are closer with each other, it will take less time for your hard drive to search for the files, therefore, giving you a quicker boot time.
This was empowered by default on my machine, but you will need to make sure you have the option enabled in the registry.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction

You will want to set “enable” to “Y”

Keep the registry clean: Windows registry can be a disaster. When programs install, they will formulate registry keys. When you uninstall the program, it will leave behind worthless registry keys. The solution is to use a pleasant, reliable, registry cleaner. Be cautious in which one you choose though because a bad cleaner could really screw up your system.

Advance warning: I've found many web sites suggesting a way of speeding up boot times that may, in fact, slow down the amount of time it takes to boot up, and almost certainly slow down application launching as well.

The tip recommends going to your “C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch” directory and clearing it every week.Windows uses this directory as a way of speeding up launching applications.It examines the files you use during start-up and the applications you launch, and create an index where those files and applications are located on your hard disk.By using this index, XP can launch files and applications faster.So, by emptying the directory, you are most likely slowing down launching applications.

In my tests, I've also found that after emptying the directory, it takes my PC a few seconds longer to get to my desktop after boot-up.

FINAL WORDS:
You have to always clean and keep all data, files, folders up-to-date in order to get good performance from your machine called personal computer...