Speed up Windows 7 Startup

This guide provides a practical overview of Speed up Windows 7 Startup, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

1. Set a static IP address for the computer.

When booting the computer, Windows spends a long time querying the IP address from your network. You can reduce this time by setting a static IP address for your computer. Because this IP is fixed, the computer does not need to ask for the IP address every time it boots up. If your computer's IP address is in a dynamic state, change it to a static state by right-clicking the network icon in the Taskbar and selecting Open Network and Sharing Center .

In the Control Panel Home, click Change adapter settings .

Next, right-click Local Area Connection and select Properties .

The Local Area Connection Properties window appears, double click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4) .

In the Internet Protocol Version 4 window (TCP / IPv4) Properties in the General tab, click Use the following IP address and enter the IP address , Subnet mask and Default gateway according to the network settings. In the Use the following DNS server address section, you can choose your own domain name server, click OK to complete the setup.

Thus, the process of setting the IP address for the computer is completed, to check you can use the command ipconfig / all in the Command promt of Windows.

2. Delete or hide unnecessary fonts.

When booting Windows 7 means that the available fonts (approximately 200 fonts) are opened. When running Microsoft Office, the number of fonts loaded increases. But using up all or not is extremely wasteful resources, allowing you can temporarily hide or remove unnecessary fonts to increase the boot process. To do this, open the computer's Font folder by going to Run, type fonts or go to Control Panel -> Fonts .

Click the font you do not need and then select Hide or Delete in the toolbar.

Obviously, by removing or hiding a lot of unused fonts, it will increase the maximum speed when booting Windows 7.

3. Tweak the BIOS.

Before running into the Windows boot screen, the BIOS is the first part to boot. The BIOS's job is to control the I / O systems and load the necessary programs into memory. To tweak the BIOS you enter the BIOS by pressing Del or some shortcut keys depending on the factory default key). Next, click on Advanced -> Quick Boot and select Enable to enable real-time saving in hardware testing.

In addition, we should arrange the Boot mode by hard drive and then to other devices so that the BIOS does not spend much time searching for Boot files from other devices. If you do not need it, you should leave Boot mode from the hard drive and other devices should not be added.

4. Remove applications that start with Windows do not matter.

Eliminating applications that start with Windows will optimize the boot time. To remove these unimportant applications, click Start -> Run (or Windows key + R ) and enter msconfig command line.

System Configuration window appears, click the Startup tab and then uncheck the application does not need to run with Windows, click OK to complete the changes. You can also use software to support this.

5. Temporarily stop using Windows services at startup.

Shutting down services that start with Windows will speed up the computer completely, but later on when you want to turn it back on it is very troublesome. So we will suspend these services so that when necessary we can run it simply. To do this, click Start, enter services in the command line search box, and then select Services as shown below.

Note: You should not pause Windows services as this will not start Windows. So you should only suspend services from applications that you install more.

Right-click on the service that needs to pause and select Properties .

Then the Properties dialog box appears, navigate to the Startup type and select Automatic (Delayed Start) . Click OK to finish.

6. Set the boot menu display time.

The Supported operating systems we are using has a value called "timout value", which means the time it takes to count down until it automatically selects the default Supported operating systems to boot. In Windows 7, the default time is 30 seconds. This is a period of time that you feel long enough to wait for the computer to boot up. So you can save Windows boot time by opening the System Configuration window ( Windows key + R type msconfig command ). Switch to the Boot tab at the Timeout section enter a value lower than 30 and click OK to finish.

7. Disable unused hardware.

During the Windows startup process, having to load a lot of drivers (hardware drivers) increases the waiting time. So, to save driver load time, you can disable unused drivers such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi. Access the Device Manager application by right-clicking Computer on the outside of the screen selecting Manager .

Next in the Computer Management window click on Device Manager .

Right-click the device that needs to be disabled and select Disable, then click Yes to complete this operation.

In addition, you should also update the drivers of frequently used devices to reduce the time to boot Windows.

Above are some ways to speed up Windows on useful startup. In addition to further optimize this you can upgrade the hardware such as replacing the HDD with an SSD , increasing RAM capacity.