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

By: 3fees

3fees — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:37:27 +0000

WRONG!!!!!!!! What you see is what you get!!!!
My Boot time went from 60-90 sec to about 20 sec tops!!!!!!! OF Course I have a dual Windows Vista Home Premium licenses with full 4 GB support,all Intel dual channeled, you have just stepped into the 3fees zone, The author of this is exactly right.

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:59:15 +0000

This is the biggest load of internet myth that I have ever read.
In fact it is the prolonged reading of Garbage like this that Killed me

By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:41:49 +0000

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

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By: Tester

Tester — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:40 +0000

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

By: Robmaister

Robmaister — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:27:07 +0000

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.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:57:40 +0000

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

By: Robert Hallock

Robert Hallock — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:27:07 +0000

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.

By: kristiutz

kristiutz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:41:44 +0000

wow! realy nice boot up with 4 cores

By: Ditto

Ditto — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:20:28 +0000

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

By: Blizz26

Blizz26 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:13:42 +0000

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.

By: ChodBetaChod

ChodBetaChod — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:53:47 +0000

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/