Trick to Speed Up Windows 7 and Vista Boot Up Process by Increasing Processor

Always feeling that the computer system boot up or startup process is slow, and to slow and lag until can get sleepy while waiting for Windows OS to ready itself? When more and more programs are installed and loaded on initial start up, Windows loading process becomes slower and slower. Windows Vista and Windows 7, together with their server variants, Windows Server 2008, has built-in mechanism to make boot up process faster, by maximizing usage of available processors.

There are many ways to decrease booting time and speed up start, such as using third party programs such as Startup Manager to manage programs running automatically. Windows 7 and Windows Vista users running dual-core, quad-core or other multi-core or multi-processors computer can try the following trick to make Windows boots faster.

  1. Press Win + R to open “Run” dialog window.
  2. Type MSConfig into the text box after “Open”.
  3. Go to Boot tab.
  4. For dual-boot or multi-boot system, make sure that the operating system to make the change is selected.
  5. Click on Advanced options button.
  6. Tick the check box for Number of processors, and then select the maximum number count of CPU core processors value from the drop down list.
  7. Click OK twice to exit System Configuration.
  8. Restart computer.

Processors Used for Boot Up Process

Once enabled, Windows operating system will use all available (or selected number of) processor cores to run the boot up algorithms, and this potentially make the startup speedier and faster, with less waiting time on black screen and logon screen. User with single core computer unlikely to find the trick useful though.


11 Responses to “Trick to Speed Up Windows 7 and Vista Boot Up Process by Increasing Processor”

  1. Jonny
    November 2nd, 2009 15:41
    11

    Please nuke this. Perpetuating this myth just leads to more idiocy.

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  4. Tester
    July 2nd, 2009 18:00
    8

    i think your heading is misleading, by default windows will boot up using all processes. so changing this configuring will have no affect.

  5. Robmaister
    May 8th, 2009 15:27
    7

    Blizz26, 32 bit processor architecture only supports something like 2.75-3 GB of RAM, if you have 4GB RAM, almost 1GB will go to waste simply because the processor doesn’t know how to use it. 64-bit based processors and operating systems can use up to 128GB of RAM (although I think the hardware cap is somewhere in the exabytes)

    The cores are simply to do one of two tasks:
    1)Diagnose and issue with a processor core (seeing which core is faulty)
    2)Dev testing a program on a single core or dual core config.

    HAL (hardware access layer) will automatically detect all the info on your processor (including model, voltage, frequency, # of cores, etc) and automatically set it to boot with that many cores.

  6. Ian
    April 4th, 2009 20:57
    6

    Oh dear, not this myth again.
    It’s like the 419 scam, it’s not going to die.

  7. Robert Hallock
    April 4th, 2009 01:27
    5

    This does not make Windows boot any faster. The Windows HAL (check the “computer” tree in the device manager) already knows how many cores the system is operating with.

    This feature is intended to give developers the ability to test their code in multi-threaded environments that differ from their own system. It can also be used to identify issues with single processors in SMP environments.

  8. kristiutz
    April 3rd, 2009 18:41
    4

    wow! realy nice boot up with 4 cores

  9. Ditto
    April 3rd, 2009 17:20
    3

    True or not, this setting is also available for Windows XP in msconfig under BOOT.ini > advanced

  10. Blizz26
    April 3rd, 2009 08:13
    2

    Awesome. Also can use this if your memory is only showing 2 gigs when you have 4 gigs installed in the task manager performance tab.

  11. ChodBetaChod
    April 3rd, 2009 03:53
    1

    This is a common myth. This is not necessary, it sets the MAXIMUM number of processors the OS will use.

    please see: http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tweaking-myth-increase-boot-performance-for-multi-core-users-with-msconfig/

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