Do you face something like this : 2
minutes to boot into Vista, then another 30 seconds just to
load start up programs? Indeed many people and website will
teach you how to remove or disable unnecessary start up
programs, and I do that too! However, some how there are
some software I need them at start up, such as Anti Virus,
Anti
Spyware, Advanced Image capture software,
skype, windows messenger, yahoo messenger and much
more...How to speed up the boot process if so many programs
to load?
What to do? With 1 GB or less RAMs, you have to use
ReadyBoost! Too bad not all USB memory sticks is Vista
compatible, they may be too slow to activate ReadyBoost, no
worry, I will show you how to Force ReadyBoost even on slow
memory
stick, but you better go to get a 4 GB
fast memory stick whenever possible!
How To Force ReadyBoost
Just plug in your memory stick, select the memory stick in
your Windows explorer, right click and select "properties"
menu, select "ReadyBoost" tab and check on the box "Stop
retesting this device...". Now launch
registry
editor and find the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows
NTCurrentVersionEMDgmt, you should see few USB devices list,
select one of them which represent the memory stick you
want, change the "Device Status" to a value "2". If the "ReadSpeedKBs"
and "WriteSpeedKBs" is below "1000" in hexadecimal, change
to "1000".
Unplug your USB memory stick and re-plug again, you should
be able to configure your USB for ReadyBoost! This is a
cheap way to do, better than nothing. However, you really
need a to get a faster drive.
Before you setup ReadyBoost, format your
USB
drive to the maximum allocation unit -> 64
Kbytes. Then change the hardware policies for this drive to
"Optimize for performance". You can do that by right click
and select "properties" menu on the drive, click on the
"Hardware" tab then select the device and click "Properties"
button. After properties Window launch, select "Polices"
tab.
Restart your computer now, after boot into Windows, allow 5
~ 10 minutes time for Superfetch to fully cache data into
the memory stick.
After this setup or you have 2 GB RAM or more, the next
trick you need to learn is how to properly schedule your
start up processes, reassign priority to your start up
programs and massively cut down your boot time and launch
application faster.
(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon
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