Windows 7 forum: How can I make my Windows 7 machines boot up quickly?

The way the Yankies are spying on everyone now I wouldn't even visit that site, and to download anything will probably be the kiss of death for your last bit of freedom. I wouldn't trust the US with a lump of dirt from my garden. Get a decent Anti Malware program. If you've not got one, or are too mean to pay for the continued subscription on the free three months you got with your new computer you deserve to be attacked, and I for one have absolutely no sympathy for you. Don't whine when your little world falls apart and you can no longer use FB.

1) Boot Laptop or desktop
2) When in full boot, type msconfig in search box
3) Click on BOOT tab
4) Click on advanced tab.
5) Check the radio tab with a check mark
6) If it says 1 hit the drop down box arrow, you may see the number 2 even up to 4 in quad systems
7) Click on 2 to set it or even 4 If you have a quad processor
8) Reboot
By doing this step, your laptop will use all the separate channels or as many as you set to boot
faster instead of just one
Good luck and let me know if it works

1) Boot Laptop or desktop
2) When in full boot, type msconfig in search box
3) Click on BOOT tab
4) Put a check mark in the boot options section where it says [x] No GUI boot
5) Set timeout to 3 seconds
6) Click on Advanced tab
7) Put a check mark in the number of processors box
8) If it says 1, hit the drop down box arrow, you may see the number 2 even up to 4 in quad systems
9) Click on 2 to set it or even 4 If you have a quad processor (highest number of processors)
10) Reboot

By doing this step, your laptop will use all the separate channels in your processor you chose to boot
faster instead of just one

Windows has a defrag option just like previous editions of Windows however if you
have an SSD drive, when you go to defrag, that option is greyed out so you can't use it.
Windows detects that type of drive and disarms that option automatically.
SSD drives should not be defragged, it shortens the life of the driive tremendously.

Don't use shutdown every time. Use sleep instead! Using sleep means you can leave programs open too, and once in sleep, it only take Windows a couple of seconds to resume. My rig even remembered what it was doing before a powercut once the power came back on, it loaded up right where I left it! Add to this the fact that your system will only use a couple of watts in sleep, it is very worthwhile to use.