Speed Up Windows Startup with a Processor Tweak
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – One of my favorite chat regulars is SWAT. Not only did he send me a very cool cap to wear, he also sent me an excellent start up optimization tip via EyeJot.
By going to my live.pirillo.com page, you can click on the EyeJot screen at the bottom right and send me a video email! SWAT sent one to me, letting me know that he had noticed that lately my startup on my Vista machine seemed incredibly slow. He’s right, it is. SWAT pointed out that by default, Windows only recognizes one Core, instead of the four that I have. So let’s take a look at his advice.
- Click on Start>Run
- type msconfig and click OK.
- Once that box opens, click on the bootup tab.
- Under the Boot tab, click on Advanced
- Click the box next to the number of Cores, and choose the proper number from the dropdown box.
- Apply and save the changes. Your computer may require a reboot. If it does, go ahead and do so, and notice the difference!
Once I did this, selected four Cores and rebooted, I truly did notice a marked difference in how much faster my machine booted! Thanks, SWAT… for the advice, and the cool cap!
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11 Comments
Within Windows
August 9th, 2008
at 9:29pm
core, on multi-core platforms, during boot leading to out-of-the-box slow boot times. With a simple tweak, using the msconfig utility bundled with the operating system, you can increase your boot time! It seems this myth originated from apost Chris Pirillo made in 2007 on his personal blog, commenting on a reader’s video submission, no surprise there. Pirillo’s lack of real technical experience, combined with the power of suggestion (placebo effect), resulted in the myth appearing on his blog, enabling it to proliferate and remain on
Alain Leveque
September 7th, 2007
at 5:48am
Hey hey,
I changed the number of processor that windows see’s to two as I have a e6600. While I was there I noticed an option for maxmem. Its currently at 2048. In theory can this be increased and if so to what? Yeah, I know that winxp 32 only see’s a certain amount of ram.
System specs below – Got it for free – yes will be switching to vista 64 shorty after they get a descent SP together and the 3rd parties IE nvidia get there act together.
Intel Core 2 duo 2.4GHz
Nforce 680i sli
8800 GTX sli
Ageia physx card
WD raptor 150gb 10000rpm
Seagate 500gb 7200rpm
4×1gb OCZ platinum
OCZ gamextream 850w
Zalman cnps9500 led
Samsung SyncMaster 205bw
Winxp 32
Ray Medina
September 7th, 2007
at 11:37am
Hi Chris,
In the msconfig application, there is no bootup tab.. There is a General, System.INI, Win.INI, BOOT.ini, Services and Startup.. Which one is it?
Mike
September 8th, 2007
at 10:48am
what if you have a gay computer like windows ME?
Claus Mandal
September 9th, 2007
at 10:47pm
@Ray Medina
You’re probably using XP and have to select BOOT.INI, press Advanced Options and in the window that pops up select /NUMPROC and select number of processors from the dropdown list.
Will it work? Do not know…
Regards
Claus Mandal
Nicholas
September 13th, 2007
at 2:39pm
“Does not recognize more than one processor”. That’s a load of baloney.
This tweak doesn’t speed up anything, and in fact can only be used to limit the number of CPUs Windows sees (for debugging/testing) which in turn will slow your computer down, duh.
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September 17th, 2007
at 5:59pm
[...] the processor tweak yielded a faster boot time, with one of them (Chris Pirillo) stating that "I truly did notice a marked difference in how much faster my machine booted!," while also saying that he didn’t benchmark the difference, and admitted it could just be a [...]
Ethan
December 16th, 2007
at 5:25pm
I’m about to attempt this, i hope its right and doesnt crash my computer by some chance XD
Doc Holiday
December 30th, 2008
at 5:23pm
LOL, I can tell most you boneshead’s don’t even know how to check the event viewer for boot time logs and debunk your own stupidity that this tweak is bs.
Larry Miller
January 9th, 2009
at 1:34pm
This is a myth
With default settings Windows will use all availible processors at boot time. This setting was made available to limit the number of processors used for testing and diagnostic purposes. Also, this limit will remain in effect after boot is completed. This setting is nothing new and has been available since NT4.
Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA
Daniel
March 29th, 2009
at 1:02pm
Yeah, total myth. Windows already recognizes both processors. You can prove this by going to the task manager, then to processes tab. Right-click on any given process, then click ’set affinity’. It should have all of your available processors already checked.