Windows Vista is one of the newer operating systems on the market. It’s supposed to be the latest greatest but it’s a little slow when it comes to booting up. There are a few tricks to make Vista boot faster. Let’s take a look at them now.
One of the first things anyone can do to speed up their machine is to disable unneeded services at start up. With these unneeded processes disabled the machine will start up quicker. There is a whole list of options that are turned on when Vista starts, many of them are not needed for the average user. These are turned on for business application and other services.
However every time you go to change something Vista will bug you and double check. Regular maintenance is no longer required on the users part as the system does it itself. It monitors when people are not using it and schedules the work to be done then, these processes run automatically. Most computer enthusiast prefer to do this manually for the sake of doing it.
Up next you have to defrag your hard disk. Defragging looks at files that may have become split over time and restacks them in the right order and puts them back together. Essentially it makes it so Vista doesn’t have to go looking for both parts of the file on opposite ends of the drive. Defragging can make start up and general usage faster and more responsive.
After you’ve done the defragmentation and turned off your services there is only one other thing to do. Scan for viruses and spyware. Malicious software can also be the cause of slow boot times. Getting rid of these pesky vermin can help your system out in general
There are many other ways to make Vista boot faster but it would take to long to go over them all. Suffice to say if you take care of your system and optimize it this should do the trick. Id you find out the problem may be hardware and not software then you might want to get a new computer. Tech support is available from most vendors to help you with this.
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