Tweak

United States
March 5, 2011 6:45am CST
This is a tweak to speed up windows xp boot time.Click on start.Click on run.When the box opens type in msconfig. click ok You will be taken to another screen.Click on boot.ini.over in the bottom right corner you will see time out 30 seconds change this to 3 seconds.Close dialog box.
2 responses
8 Jun 11
That's only if you have multiple installations of Windows on your system [ergo, dual-boot]. It shortens the time that you would select the operating system you'd be using for a session. That does not help in startup times. You're better off disabling unnecessary startup programs in msconfig.
@bretay61 (722)
• United States
13 Mar 11
Thank you.I am on Windows 7.And I am trying it with it.It was on 30 also.Is that a deault for all programs?We will see if it works.Thank you so much.