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If you're one of the millions with slow boot-up times (time it takes your computer to turn on) and lots of crashes, there is a way to improve the situation. It's called MSCONFIG.

I'm sure most people know that the more programs you have running on your computer at once, the more likely it is that your computer will either slow to a crawl, or even crash. What most people don't know is that every time you boot (start) your computer a whole mess of "hidden" programs load in the background. Some of these hidden programs are essential to the running of your system, but most aren't. Turning off some of these hidden programs can significantly increase your computer's performance and reliability.

To find out how, follow the steps below:

1. Hit Start, and Run.
2. Type into the Run box, msconfig
3. A window will pop up that will look a bit like this:



4. Press the "Startup" tab at the top of your window, and you'll come across this:


As you can see, every thing on that list that's ticked, starts up with your computer everyday! If you know some of them are useless, untick them. If you're not sure what some of them are, look at their path file (the middle column), for example C:\Program Files\AVG Anti-Spyware. Automatically, I know I don't need that to run in the background, so I would uncheck it. I can always start it up later on again, like I normally would (double-clicking the icon on the desktop, or wherever you want to run it from). I'd also uncheck MSNmessenger, Microsoft Office, etc. If you're still unsure, though, either ignore it and leave it the way it is, or google it, i.e. "jusched startup" will give you spot-on results for exactly what it is and whether you need it to run or not.

5. Click "Apply", then "Okay", and Restart your computer if it tells you to do so.

6. On your next restart, you'll get a little window pop up - just tick the checkbox right at the bottom which says "Don't remind me again" or "Don't show this box again" or something of the sort.

7. You're done! You should now have significantly faster load-up times.


The first time I tried this, I went from my computer taking 4 minutes to load, to only 45 seconds. Results will always vary, but if you put in the extra few minutes to google things you don't know, you'll have better results.


Good luck!
If any questions/problems arise, feel free to ask me and I'll be sure to help.