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I am running WIN7 pro with 4K memory. In trying to speed up my boot time (which was 90 seconds) I went in MSCONFIG and checked the 'number of processors' entered 2 and checked the 'maximum memory' entered 4096. Rebooted PC. It booted like it was in safe mode and took over 30 minutes to boot. Yikes. Went back in MSCONFIG and saw the memory was set to 200. Don't understand how that happened. I unchecked the processors and memory that I had changed. Rebooted PC. Booted normally but now it takes 180-250 seconds to boot. This has been consistent over that last dozen boots now. I would like to figure out how to get it back to the 90 seconds boot time. Any ideas? I did do a restore to a point prior to changing the settings but I still get the 180-250 seconds to boot. I have tried to do a repair at bootup (F8 key) but it found nothing. The 90 seconds might seem high to some but I have anti-virus (Norton), anti-malware (malwarebytes), system tool (IOBIT), and other programs loading at startup.