How Do You Speed Up Windows XP Boot?
Windows has long been known (whatever the version) for giving extremely long bootup times. Have you ever noticed that each time you go to a new computer e.g. from Windows 98 to XP, or from XP to Vista, that the bootup time improves? But then within just a few months it seems to take forever for the PC to boot up once more! In this article, I’ll give you some expert tips on how to speed up Windows XP boot. Why Slow Startup? First of all, over time your Windows registry gets written to several hundreds of thousands of times. This is a central database used by most programs. However, Windows (as an operating system) does not contol access to this database very well. So the result is that it becomes a huge but yet inefficient, partly corrupt, bloated database that slows down your entire system. Also, as you install more and more programs over time they try to lauch themselves each time you boot your machine. So what happens is that your PC tries to load up perhaps 50 programs into the back