Comments on: How to Speed Up Windows 7 Boot?

By: VOA

VOA — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:15:31 +0000

This is awesome.

By: Musqueteer

Musqueteer — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:11:18 +0000

Bogus. Didnt work for me.

By: MagicAndre1981

MagicAndre1981 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:01:56 +0000

This tweak is NONSENSE. Windows will always use all cores. With this setting you can REDUCE the used cores.

If you want to speedup Windows 7 boot follow this guide if you use a HDD:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=140262

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:42:36 +0000

I tried this tip ages ago when I was using Windows Vista and it didn’t seem to make much if any difference then. I have not tried it since using Windows 7 as I can not see that there is anything different in Windows 7 that would make it work better but I am not sure why it could be harmful!

There are plenty of guides on the Internet showing you how to improve boot speed and there is a good free program I saw on the BBC Click TV program called Soulto which times your boot and shows you what applications are slowing your boot time and gives you the oppotunity to stop them loading at boot up or to pospone them from loading until you system has fully booted. Other then that the best way to speed up your boot time is to install Windows on a SSD but at the moment that can be expensive.

By: Z

Sat, 21 May 2011 16:36:27 +0000

this does nothing, if you use the boxes unchecked windows 7 uses the max number of cores available

By: mrp

mrp — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:22:08 +0000

All “crap”!
You got an Quad with hyperthreading (8 cores) and put in 4, your PC will end up with 4 (FOUR) cores only! Not 8 but 4!

Windows 7 Ultimate x64

By: spyder

spyder — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:23:58 +0000

had to use safe mode to reverse this. im runnin a 6core processor with 16gb ddr3 and this tip does not work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:17:28 +0000

This setting does NOT make your boot up speed faster (I have tested it myself previously, and it didn’t have an effect). I am not surprised to learn that this does not work, and is potentially harmful.

Note that there is a checkbox enabling the drop-down: As such, if the checkbox is not checked, the system makes a decision as to how many cores to use. Don’t be confused by the default value of “1″ in the dropdown box. This does not indicate the number used (whilst it the dropdown is disabled).

To increase boot performance, re-install windows (fresh), and put the minimal amount of bloatware on your computer (don’t install all the bloatware your OEM gives you). That always works best.

By: Wim

Wim — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:25:20 +0000

You are all dummies for windows if you are negative about this article.
Leave it pnly to windows experts , like me

By: marcus

marcus — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:19:08 +0000

im using i7 (8cores) start up before was 53sec, now 43sec
but im not sure if its coz of this