It might be your hardware that may be why your computer boots up slowly. Booting the computer loads and initializes the drivers and hardware installed on your computer. It is important that you are sure your drivers are updated. But this may not be that simple a task as you may have to check the manufacturers web sites regularly. If you have older equipment is the more important it is that you check to see if all your drivers are up-to-date. You should also verify that the drivers are for the version of operating system you are currently running.

It is frustrating to turn on your computer and have to wait ten minutes or more for it to load up. If you have a lot of programs assigned to automatically startup could be causing your compute to crawl. But this is not a good reason to purchase a new computer. There are some simple tips that will allow you to improve the amount of time it takes your computer to boot.

Begin by going to the start menu and clicking on “run”. Then type “msconfig”. This will open up the System Configuration utility. The default tab is the General Tab but you should click on the Startup Tab. Under this tab you will find all the programs that will run when your computer starts up. While some of them may be useful to automatically start many could be eliminated. One rule of thought is to only have any anti-virus or anti-spyware software automatically start up.

To stop any program from automatically starting up just uncheck it from the list. Unchecking a program will not remove or un-install it from your computer. Once you have made your selections just click on “ok”. You will have to re-start your computer for the changes to take effect.

If you do not see a program listed that automatically starts up then you may need to disable it in another way. Many programs have a setting in the preferences that allow you to enable or disable the startup process.

Are you aggravated when you turn on your computer? If there are a lot of programs set to automatically startup this could be cause of your slow boot times. But you don’t have to buy a new computer. You can begin to improve how fast your computer boots up by performing some routine housecleaning. You should do this before you make any changes to your system. Routine maintenance functions that are recommended to be performed on a regular basis include: emptying the temporary files and the Recycle bin, running up-to-date anti-spyware and anti-virus software, running the disk defragmenter and chkdsk utilities. Go to the Start menu on the bottom left-hand of the screen and left click. In the run menu or search box type “MSCONFIG.” Click on the “Start Up” tab. Almost everything in this can be unselected but you’ll probably just want to unselect programs that you are familiar with. This list is all of the programs that load while your computer boots and you can always start them manually after the computer is booted. Deselect any you want to keep and click “Apply” and then “Ok.” If you have any problems booting up or one of your programs doesn’t work the way you want, re check the boxes you unchecked until you find a balance of what you want to load and the time it takes your computer to boot. These are just a couple of things you can do that will help to improve your computers start up time.

It is aggravating when you turn on your computer it takes ten minutes or more for it to boot up. There are many things that could be causing your computers slow boot times. But you don’t have to buy a new computer.

Many BIOS’s have a quick boot feature, this is where the pc does not perform such in-depth POST power on self test checks, and makes quite a difference even before we get to loading Windows. To get into your BIOS your PC will prompt you on start which key to press for SETUP usually F2 or Del, once you’re in the BIOS find and select the Quick Boot option. There are many more tuning option for the BIOS that will help to speed up boot time but unless you’re really familiar with it, this can cause issues.

MSCONFIG is another utility you can use to speed up the boot time of your computer. Type MSCONFIG at the Run prompt from the Start Menu. Boot.ini tab change Timeout from 30 sec to 3 sec, don’t go too low as you may still need to get to the boot menu one day.

Disable unused devices can also eliminate another source of boot slowness, to rectify this. Launch System either from Control Panel or by right clicking on My Computer and selecting properties. Select the hardware tab and Device Manager, Double click on each device description to expand and now Right Click and Disable any device that you do not need to use, as a rule of thumb, any device you are not sure of leave enabled. Disabled devices will already have a red cross on them.

If you need to re-enable a device simply right click on it and the disable option will have changed to enable. If you are unsure of any services to disable, presume its needed, as every computer uses a different list of services click on any service for more information, so you can disable to suite your needs.