Reduce Windows 7 Boot Time

Does your computer boot slowly? If you shut your computer down regularly, this can be a real pain. Anything more than about 45 seconds tests my patience and I've used computers that take well over five minutes to boot (really, not kidding.)

There are three easy things you can do to improve boot time:

• Remove unnecessary startup programs.

• Delay non-essential programs on startup.

• Remove Spyware.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to do the first two of these tasks

Use Startup Delayer to Reduce Boot Time

Some programs need to start right away, like your dock or your antivirus program. Some programs can wait; for example: Messenger programs, etc.

With StartUp Delayer, you can set programs to start up in defined intervals, which will smooth the startup process considerably. The program also acts as a startup manager, allowing you to uncheck programs you don't want to run at all.

Once in the delay area, you can define how long to wait before these programs start.

After testing this software on my Windows 7 Ultimate laptop (Core Duo 2 GHz, 3 GB ram), I managed to get a complete startup time (boot to functionality) in 28 seconds (originally 41)... not bad. I have done other things to tweak my laptop, but this is still a real improvement.