Go to "Start" tab. If your PC takes too much to start, you'll probably see a lot of ticked boxes (15+)Now,..." /> Go to "Start" tab. If your PC takes too much to start, you'll probably see a lot of ticked boxes (15+)Now,..." /> Go to "Start" tab. If your PC takes too much to start, you'll probably see a lot of ticked boxes (15+)Now,..." /> Go to "Start" tab. If your PC takes too much to start, you'll probably see a lot of ticked boxes (15+)Now,..." />
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zexen_lowe on 28 July 2009
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Start->Run->type "msconfig" -> Go to "Start" tab. If your PC takes too much to start, you'll probably see a lot of ticked boxes (15+)

Now, you'll want to leave it in less than 10 boxes ticked (I have 7 ticked, 24 unticked, and my PC starts in a minute, more or less). How do you know what to untick? Google and common sense. Google each of the "start elements", you'll get a good idea of it's essential or not for start. If it's not essential, it can be unticked safely, but of course, there are non-essential programs that you want to run at starting (like, dunno, MSN may be important for some), that's where it's your choice what to leave ticked and what not

This is actually a "lite" way of improving the startup time, of course there's a much thorough way and it's tampering with services, but that requires a bit more judgment. It's located (on XP) in Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services, and you can choose to stop services from starting automatically. Most are pretty self-explanatory, so if you don't think you need them you can disable them