A new tip I learned for win7

[noobie noob]

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I'll post this anyway. Delete if it's been mentioned before. I use a quad core cpu and was always bummed with the time it took to boot into win7 from power on. To shorten this time by a lot(!), type msconfig in the run line, go to boot, advanced and change the processor count to 4. Mine was defaulted to 1!!! Believe that? Once I put 4 in there and applied, the boot time was shortened by half. Call me kooky, I should have known this. DOH! If you use a dual just use 2, tri core 3. It will only give you options for the cpu you have. I never thought this would be an option, was never told this when I took vista training and got certified, but vista is the same setup. Oh well, hope this might help a couple people out.

[Nagoshi]

Am going to try right away.

[jmilch]

I am assuming this just sets the default before windows automatically configured upon bootup.

This is great except in the event someone replaces a quad with a dual core it may not boot.The chances of that are very slim though.

[mlitz]

suscribed.... i want to know what happens!

[Nagoshi]

First time didn't work for me, as it did a BSOD right after the Windows animated flag. Could've been my weird board too, as from time to time it is unstable for no reason.

Second time booted normally, the settings is still set to 3 for me (tri-core), but it didn't seem like it helped boot times by a whole lot.

Maybe you deactivated a whole bunch of stuff at the same time?

[prudhomb]

subscribed to follow, if others have good luck with this, I will check. For some reason Im thinking I set something in widows to 4 cores already, but cant remember.

[Metalsoft]

Dude that is awesome, I can boot on 8 cores.....and it is fast yo!!

[davidhammock200]

Originally Posted by noobie noob

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I'll post this anyway. Delete if it's been mentioned before. I use a quad core cpu and was always bummed with the time it took to boot into win7 from power on. To shorten this time by a lot(!), type msconfig in the run line, go to boot, advanced and change the processor count to 4. Mine was defaulted to 1!!! Believe that? Once I put 4 in there and applied, the boot time was shortened by half. Call me kooky, I should have known this. DOH! If you use a dual just use 2, tri core 3. It will only give you options for the cpu you have. I never thought this would be an option, was never told this when I took vista training and got certified, but vista is the same setup. Oh well, hope this might help a couple people out.

This needs to Sticky-ed!

GREAT FIND!!!

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by Metalsoft

Dude that is awesome, I can boot on 8 cores.....and it is fast yo!!

No 16 cores? C'mon

[davidhammock200]

Originally Posted by Nagoshi

No 16 cores? C'mon

Just you wait & see! Soon my friend, soon!

[Metalsoft]

I am working on it!

lol.............

[runlinux]

hey Metal, dont you mean Dual? not DUEL in your rig?

well, unless you CPU's are fighting all the time.... lol.

i set mine to 8.... no difference, yet....

[Metalsoft]

Originally Posted by runlinux

hey Metal, dont you mean Dual? not DUEL in your rig?

well, unless you CPU's are fighting all the time.... lol.

i set mine to 8.... no difference, yet....

LOL, your right......Spelling FTW!.

Setting mine to 8 actually made quite the difference.

[ditchmagnet]

I thought everyone knew about this. I have been doing this for a long time. IF you were to change to a dual core it would automatically drop down to 2 threads. If you have HT enabled, and msconfig set to 8, disable HT and you will see it will automatically go to 4...if i remember right. I know it wont mess up anything though.

[Namtaro]

Wow, that made a real difference! Pretty much halfed my bootup time. Awesome find. This should deffently get stickyed.

I wonder how short the boot time for a i7 980x + SSD is...

[gfourth]

I found this little trick when I was setting up my SSD as a boot drive, cool little trick!

Additional Comment:

I also check the "No GUI Boot" box, couldn't tell if it makes it faster, but it skips the colorful windows boot screen. It goes from a black screen to desktop

[Mr.PACO]

Originally Posted by ditchmagnet

I thought everyone knew about this. I have been doing this for a long time.

+1
Ever since I first installed win7/64bit and came across this option exploring the OS I set it to my 4cores and has been runnig great

[K31TH3R]

Originally Posted by ditchmagnet

I thought everyone knew about this. I have been doing this for a long time. IF you were to change to a dual core it would automatically drop down to 2 threads. If you have HT enabled, and msconfig set to 8, disable HT and you will see it will automatically go to 4...if i remember right. I know it wont mess up anything though.

Same here, I always make sure the amount of processors in the system corresponds to msconfigs usage on boot up.

Learned this from the good ol' days back when Black Viper released his Windows XP tweaks.

[ditchmagnet]

Originally Posted by gfourth

I also check the "No GUI Boot" box, couldn't tell if it makes it faster, but it skips the colorful windows boot screen. It goes from a black screen to desktop

ya, thats a good one too. I think it helps a little, being fewer process to display.

Might also be worth mentioning here for those that don't know for some reason, click the startup tab and click disable all, then just check what you really need to run. Click services tab and check hide Microsoft services, disable all, and check what you need...or disable some Microsoft services there too.

[Deluded]

Works for me. Vista 64-bit. Boot time was noticably faster as well. Thanks!