Ever wonder why your computer takes longer to loadup windows the more you use it? We all have purchased a brand new computer and it seems so much faster to boot up to Windows then it is now. The slow bootup is not your imagination and may not be due to anything being wrong with your PC. From my experience, the slow bootup time is due to the increased Windows startup entries added by installed programs. For example, if you installed Adobe Acrobat reader, it automatically adds an entry into your Wndows startup file to load Adobe Acrobat when Windows loads. In addition, this startup will also try to check for updates everytime Windows is started up. This adds to increased use of resources and longer bootup times. Therefore to increase the bootup time of your Microsoft Windows computer, remove any programs from the Windows startup that is not necessary. To do this go to Start>Run and type in msconfig. This will bring up the Windows’ System configuration window as shown here:

Fig. 1 Windows system configuration window.

When the Windows system configuration window comes up, choose Selective Startup. Now you can click on the Startup tab and uncheck any programs that do not need to be loaded at startup. Just becareful not to uncheck any programs you do not know are necessary. Here is a screen shot:

Fig. 2 Startup tab programs.

Once you are done, click apply and Windows should load up faster the next time you startup. If your computer still seems slow, then please try the free PC scan offered on RegCure-PC-Optimizer.com.

Tags: fast boot, slow boot, slow computer, slow pc, Windows startup

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