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How to: Make your XP start up a lot faster

8 May 2008 544 views 4 Comments



[This tutorial might be inaccurate, try at your own risk]

There is a Startup Delay value in the Registry Editor that, when decreased, will make your XP start up faster.

To to this go to Start > Run and type regedit to open up the Registry Editor.

Navigate to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex and look for an entry named StartupDelay. Change the default value of 4800000 to 40000 and reboot for the changes to take effect.

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  • hammad said:

    ok now u have to give me answer
    how can i make that funy virues ok not real virues

    # 11 June 2008 at 12:51 pm
  • Eerik said:

    Yeah, sorry…the post for that is here:
    http://www.xptricks.net/2008/04/how-to-make-fake-virus-and-error-messages/

    By the way, if you look at the top right corner of my blog, there is a search box which might help you if you can’t find something.

    # 20 June 2008 at 4:29 pm
  • Larry Miller said:

    NONSENSE!
    The registry setting “StartupDelay” controls the delay before the indexing service begins scanning. It’s purpose is to delay indexing until bootup is complete. The default of 8 minutes will usually accomplish this. Changing this to 40 seconds as suggested may allow indexing to begin before bootup is complete, thus SLOWING the process.

    Of course if indexing is disabled the setting will do nothing.

    References:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms692127(VS.85).aspx

    Larry Miller
    Microsoft MCSA

    # 25 February 2009 at 6:49 pm
  • Eerik said:

    @ Larry

    Thanks for pointing it out. I don’t have the time to check every tip that gets posted on the blog so sometimes these kinds of things slip in.

    I added a short note above the post to warn readers.

    Thanks again,

    Eerik

    # 27 February 2009 at 10:17 pm

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