Computer Taking Too Much Time To Boot?

Computer taking too much time to boot can be an alarming issue to few problems, you are ignoring lately. So today let me point out all those problems along with their solutions. Here goes the list to speed up the booting time of Windows PC.

1. Too Many Start-Up Programs

Too many start-up programs can really affect the booting time of your computer. By default, computer needs only few essential programs to boot up completely. Rest, you can disable them as they are only adding to the booting time of your computer. By accessing the System Configuration from Msconfig.exe, you can disable the unwanted start-up programs. Here’s how?

How to disable Start-up program?

• Click on start, type msconfig in search bar, and click on msconfig program.
• Under Startup Tab, remove all the unwanted start-up programs like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Google Updates, Internet search bars. But don’t disable any essential one’s in the process. If you are not sure about any program, then better leave it or you can use Soluto to guide regarding the same. Soluto is highly recommended for beginners or novice users.
• Click on Apply and OK to confirm.
• 2.    Defragmentation

If you are not defragmenting your Hard Disk on a scheduled basis, then this can also add up to system’s booting time. How? With time your hard disk will become fragmented which causes a single file to get sprawled on different locations. So to retrieve such files, system will surely going to take too much time. To avoid the fragmentation issues, it’s better to defragment the hard disk on a regular basis or you can say once a week or two. You should also defragment your hard disk after you delete huge amount of data from your computer system. Here’s how to do that?

• Click on My Computer.
• Right Click on the Primary Drive(mostly C:/). Select Properties, then move on to Tools.
• Click on Defragment now. The process may take few minutes or more to complete.

3.   Disk Errors

Disk Error is the another problem which sometime can cause fatal issues too. So it’s always recommended to check your disk for such errors. Upon doing so, computer system also fixes the file system error and recover bad bad sectors on hard disk too. Same as the above process mentioned in the Defragmentation part.

• Click on My Computer.
• Right Click on the Primary Drive. Select Properties, move to Tools.
• Under Error Checking, click on Check now to fix the file system errors and to recover the bad sectors. If you are doing so for your Primary Drive, then it will schedule a Error Checking at the boot up time. Error checking will takes place when you next start up your system.

4.  Low RAM

Upgrading RAM significantly decrease the booting time of your computer system. I recommend more than 512MB or better make it a 1GB RAM if you are using Windows XP, or at least 2GB of RAM if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7.

5. Unused Hardware

Why allow your computer system to waste time on loading hardware drivers, you are not using at all. You can enable them when you want. So it’s better to disable all those drivers installed in respect to use the hardware which you are not using now. Here’s how to do that.

• Click on Start, type Device Manager in the search bar.
• Click on Device Manager, which will list all the hardware drivers.
• Right click and disable the unwanted one’s.

6.  Low Disk-Space

If your Primary Drive is struggling for disk space, then this also adds up to the booting time of your computer system. So make room for disk space by deleting all the junk files or by shifting the application program to the other drives.

7.  Use a Good Anti-Virus

Malwares can increase the booting time of your computer system. To avoid, use a good Anti-Virus and always keep it up to date. Scan your computer system once in a week or daily if possible. You can use Microsoft Security Essentials, AVG Anti-Virus, Avast or NOD 32,kaspersky. Use anyone of them and always keep them up to date.

8.  Uninstall Programs Correctly

If you are deleting the unwanted programs using the right click and delete method from where they are stored in the Primary Drive then this can leads to enormous booting time of your computer system. Do not right click and delete the unwanted programs. Because upon doing so the computer leaves some junk in your registry files. Follow the right way to uninstall the unwanted programs off your computer system.

• Click on My Computer.
• Go to Uninstall or change a program.
• Double Click the program to uninstall.

9. Take Care Of Your Hardware

Clean up your hardware once or twice in a month, make sure that the connections are fixed properly. Blow out that dust off of the fans inside in the cabinet. Connect all the hardware properly. Not only it will help you a bit in boosting up the booting time, but it will also lead you to enjoy a much faster computer system. Also, upgrade your hardware from time to time. Move on with the generation.