Slow Startup

By Jeff Blake

I love my computer. I wouldn't trade it for the world. But sometimes it can drive me stark raving nuts -- because it seemingly inexplicably becomes so very slow. Perhaps no more so than at startup. Press the 'on' button for startup, and you may as well leave to do something else... because it's going to take an awfully long while. Sound familiar? The good news for both of us, is it doesn't have to be this way.

In this article, I am going to address this area of slow startup -- but I'm going to do it succinctly. No beating about the bush. Because I want to put these tools right in your hands, so that 20 minutes from now you'll have not only read this, but have done what it suggested, and seen the results. I know what a pain it can be to search for help on something, only to get a very long and complicated set of instructions that will take hours just to decode. So none of that here. Now I'll tell you right up front -- that means we'll not cover everything you could possibly do to eradicate slow startup. But big deal. The 2 tips I will give you are by far the most important, and they're quick and easy. Anything else is just icing on the cake. And icing is great if you've got endless hours to spend tinkering for minimal fine-tuning results, but most of us just want to get it sorted and move on.

So here goes: Tip 1. To overcome a slow startup, clean and organise your system registry. The what, you ask? The registry contains all the settings for the software on your computer -- it tells your computer exactly how to use everything. Problem is, over time all registries change, often becoming bloated, corrupted and containing redundant information. Some bits even go missing. This is by far the major cause for computer slowness, including slow startup. Now the trick is of course that something this important can't just be tinkered with haphazardly. Which is where a good registry cleaner comes in. All you need to do is download one, run it, let it tell you what needs fixed, and say 'yes, please do.' And that's you sorted.

Which brings us to tip 2 for eliminating a slow startup. Limit the number of programs that get to start up when you turn your computer on. The added bonus of using a good registry cleaner, is it gives you the option of helping you do this -- far easier than tinkering with Windows all by yourself.

And that's it. There are plenty of decent registry repair products out there. Here's one I'd recommend giving a go. It's completely compatible with all versions of Windows, from the older ones to XP and Vista. It's also thorough, easy to use and you can test it out for free.

Jeff Blake is a technical support advisor, whose PC mission in life is to save others the pain, frustration & money that being a computer owner can sometimes cause.

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