Windows 7 - How do I speed up windows Start-up & Shut down?

xSaxby · 10-15-2011

Okay, I want my Sony Vaio laptop to start-up faster and shut-down faster.

I've got 3GB RAM & Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 2.67GHz.

Also, How can I find out which programs I don't need and can uninstall, because I want to uninstall some programs, which I don't 'think' I use, nor need. But I'm not sure.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks, xSaxby.

ignatzatsonic · 10-15-2011

Generally, you start up faster by using msconfig to control which applications start every time Windows starts. Type msconfig into the start box and look at what is checked on the startup tab. You don't need all of that stuff checked to start up.

Hard to say what you can uninstall without seeing a list of what you have installed via control panel/programs and features.

xxxdannyxxx · 10-15-2011

Hi xSaxby

You can turn off some non essential programs from your startup list - Startup Programs - Change.
This will help shut down times - Shut Down -Speed Up

Danny

xSaxby · 10-15-2011

Thankyou for your help both of you, it now shuts down much quicker, but it still takes about 1minute 20 seconds tofully start up, from the 'Welcome' screen, is this normal? How can I make the Welcome screen speed up?

Thanks again, xSaxby.

ignatzatsonic · 10-15-2011

That's not a bad speed for a laptop on a spinning drive.

There might be some sort of a "quick boot" setting in the BIOS. You'd have to look. But it won't make a huge difference.

You can use certain tools to take a deep dive into the boot process on your PC. That may result in some minor improvements, but you are already in a reasonable ballpark.

xxxdannyxxx · 10-15-2011

80 Seconds isn't too bad in my opinion, have you turned off non essential items in msconfig

Regards Danny

whs · 10-15-2011

I installed an OCZ Vertex2 on my Sony Vaio. Now it boots in 16 seconds.

xxxdannyxxx · 10-15-2011

If you want to dig a little deeper into start-up this is a nice tool - Soluto

xSaxby · 10-15-2011

I'm happy with what it's at now, Although I'd love to be able to uninstall some programs, yet I don't know which ones..

Thanks for all your help!

ignatzatsonic · 10-15-2011

That's a Solid State Drive aka SSD.

Any of them will knock your boot time way down, but they are expensive. Most of us just use them for the operating system alone and use another spinning drive for data. You may not be able to put 2 drives in a laptop.

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