Shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn on
your PC.
No matter how fast your PC boots, it’s not fast enough. Here are several hacks to get
you right to your desktop as quickly as possible after startup.
Hack Your BIOS for Faster Startups
When you turn on your PC, it goes through a set of startup procedures in its BIOS
before it gets around to starting Windows. So, if you speed up those initial startup
procedures, you’ll make your system start faster.
You can speed up your startup procedures by changing the BIOS with the built-in setup
utility. How you run this utility varies from PC to PC, but you typically get to it by
pressing either the Delete, F1, F2, or F10 key during startup. You’ll come to a menu
with a variety of choices. Here are the choices to make for faster system startups:
Quick Power On Self Test (POST)
When you choose this option, your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than
the normal, lengthy one.
Change Your Boot Order
If you change the boot order so that your BIOS checks the hard disk first for
booting, it won’t check any other devices, and will speed up your startup time.
Boot Up Floppy Seek
Disable this option. When it’s enabled, your system spends a few extra seconds
looking for your floppy drive—a relatively pointless procedure, especially considering
how infrequently you use your floppy drive.
Boot Delay
Some systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard
drive gets a chance to start spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don’t need
to have this boot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can
turn it back on.
See Also
• "How to Speed Up Startup by Halting Startup Programs and Services in Windows 8”
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