Re: Computer Booting Speeding

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I off my computer after every session because I am afraid it will increase
power bill. I am not familiar with the 'hibernation' mode - I do not think it
is available in PC. I was using it in my laptop.
I am also afraid that the hard disk will wear out faster becuase I
understand that hard disk keeps rotating when the PC is on - even when we are
not retrieving data from hard disk.
Another concern for too many start up programs is that it may slow down my
computer even after it has start up - as it may load my CPU and Memory.
Barring above three concerns, I agree with you that the start up time is not
important. It is probably carry forward mentality from the old PC days with
absolutely low quality level of the hardware as compared with the todays
sturdy models.
I would like to have guidance on above three points. We can call it personal
'Attitude' problems with our PC.
--
Shrikant


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:51:00 -0700, Shrikant
<Shrikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How to speed up computer start up ? I have removed all desktop icons. The
booting is slow because of actions taking place in the 'tray' icons on right
hand bottom corner. One of the icons is for 'HP Product Update'. Other Icon
says "Keep your computer uptodate", then another Icon says "safely romove
hardware". They get loaded one by one with the pop up messages as each one
gets loaded. Can it be eliminated thereby speeding up the computer start up ?
Is there any way to speed up the computer ? What is the 'normal time' to boot
up the computer ? Even after my computer gets booted, I see some action on my
hard disk.


My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it
takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the
morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I
don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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