Daily Mag Rawr: How to make your PC start-up faster

If your PC is working slower than usual, this may be because – too many programs are executed during the computer start up. Some of these programs maybe unnecessary to you. And these unnecessary programs take up too much of the CPU processes, thus making your PC slow. You can just remove these programs from the start up. So these programs will not be automatically run when the computer is started. These programs can be run manually only when needed. This will help you to get more percentage of cpu for your important tasks. Lets understand this with an example. I have seen computers with so many start up programs, which actually makes the computer handicap to do any other important task. A computer with start up programs like messengers, gaming client, mobile pc suites, user defined themes, etc etc is likely to perform slower than usual. If you want your PC to perform faster then ideally you should only keep the System services, Antivirus and the Firewall on your start up list. So lets see how to modify the start up list.

How to change the start up in the registry ?

If you are using Windows XP, then go Start > Run > Type regedit, press Enter.
If you are using Windows 7, then go Start > Type regedit, press Enter.
Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Click on Edit > Find. Type msconfig in Find box.
Select Keys. Deselect Values. Deselect Data. (image reference)
Expand MSConfig > Expand startupreg. (image reference)
Select the item you want to delete. (In my case i will select Msn Messenger, check the image in next point).
Right click and Click delete. (image reference).
Similarly you ‘can’ delete other items from the start-up using registry.

NOTE : Please do not be under the impression that deleting registry items makes your PC faster. Deleting only the start up items will help to make your PC a little faster. DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING ELSE unless you KNOW what you are doing. And feel free to ask for help in comments or on forum before messing up anything.

Is there any Software to do all these tasks?

Yes. There is something called as CCleaner by Piriform. It will help you to clean registry, remove startup items by graphical user interface. I recommend this tool to you guys. Its clean and easy to use. And its FREE.

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