How To Make Windows XP Start-up Faster

We all at some point in the day have to turn on our computers. You flip the switch, are greeted by the nice Microsoft logo, and then log onto your computer and wait for your computer to give you the green light to start computing.

But what are you actually waiting for? A lot of the time, we are actually waiting for programs to start in the background of Windows that we neither want nor need. This can take up precious time not to mention valuable computer power. In this tutorial, I will show you how not only to speed up you start-up on your Windows XP computer but also how to speed up your computer all together! That's two birds with one stone! I never condone senseless bird murder by the way folks!

1 The first thing we want to do is click on start and then down below on the right, you want to click Run


2. Now we see a little white dialogue box. This is the run box. In here we want to type the following phrase "MSCONFIG" without the quotation marks and then press ok.

3. Now we have a somewhat bigger window. This is the System Configuration Window. Now, don't be scared, this window is your friend, trust me! Click on the services tab. Here is a list of why it takes your computer so long to start.

4. Now some items on the list you want to leave alone. Before you uncheck anything, make sure at the bottom left hand corner where I have the picture highlighter, MAKE SURE THAT HIDE ALL MICROSOFT SERVICES BOX IS CHECKED! I'm sorry I had to raise my voice like that. So anyways, good rule of thumb for me is, stay away from anything to do with printing and antivirus. Everything else you can uncheck. In my case, I have Windows media player running in the background, a DVD player program I won't need, MS Office I can start on my own, anything adobe you can uncheck, and yahoo toolbar which I don't know how it's even on my computer but I will show you how to remove unwanted programs in another tutorial.

5. Now that we have told windows not run these programs on start-up, all we need to now do is click on "Apply" as Highlighted

6. click "close" as highlighted.

7 Now a another Dialogue appears that will ask us to restart our computer. You can go ahead and click on restart.

After you restarted your computer you should noticed a somewhat improvement in the start-up speed. You'll see one more box, all you need to do is check "Keep Changes" and hit Ok. and there you have it!  A nice super charged copy of Windows with more horsepower. If you found this article helpful or you're still scratching your head, please feel free to ask me any questions by posting down below. I hope I've made your computer experience all the better.