Have you ever waited over a minute just waiting for your computer to start-up?
Follow the easy steps to be able to start up or restart within SECONDS
1) Open “run” from the start menu.
2) Type “Regedit” and enter (–opens Registry Editor–)
3) This may take a few minutes but search for the folder
“HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlContentIndex”
4) After finding the folder find the Key Called “Startup Delay”
5) Double Click On It
6) A new window will come up and there will be a box named “base” with hexadecimal ticked
7) Tick Decimal
Its Default value Is 4800000
9) Change The value To 50000
10) Close everything including the registry editor and restart your computer.
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remember this is harsh on your computer and i dont recomend it to pentuim 2 below.
thnx this made my start up way faster
im lost in step 4 wats the key thing
its the right hand column. It should have a line with the name as in guide.
ok thnx it woks
happy it helped.
just note that if done too many times it is bad for the computer.
? so shud i continue doing it?
your call if you think this is a risk you are willing to take.
im not gona do it in case it screws my com up
your call its your computer.
This page is really worth bookmarking.Thanks for all your efforts.
Regedit is a great tool for amateur users to crash their computers. Heck, it keeps us IT guys working; job security.
works on VISTA ???
i know this was posted years ago, but i found it via stumbleupon so this message is for all you stumblers. this key has nothing to do with how fast your computer starts up. it controls how long the indexing service waits before starting its work. lowering the value would probably make your computer take longer to start up.
reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms692127(VS.85).aspx