Boot your computer faster!

Most of you may have problems with getting your computer to boot fast enough. I remember my first computer. The first time I pluged it in and booted it up I was soo overjoyed. It ran and it ran fast. However, the more I started using it the slower it seemed to be getting. It eventually got to a point to where I would boot it up and walk away for 10 minutes so it could fully load everything. At one point it got soo aggrivating that I started looking around for tips and tricks to get faster boot times.

Waiting for your computer to fully boot to a functional peice of technology can be a daunting task if you have a low amount of RAM and a lot of startup programs. I actually took my comptuer to a repair technician to get this problem solved. Their solution was to add more RAM and for a few weeks that seemed to do the trick. But it didn't last long. I soon came into the same problem. I remember the tech telling me that having more RAM can increase the overall speed of your computer so I started looking for information on how to get a hold of more RAM. Sadly, much to my surprise, I found out that I could not add any more RAM. My computer was maxed at 1GB of RAM.

After some experimenting I stumbled onto some extremely usefull information. I learned on RAM worked and I learned alot about how computers work. Here is what found out.

• All programs require RAM to start up and run.
• RAM is like a memory bank for your computer to help stat things faster.
• The more RAM your computer has, the more it can handle.
• RAM is used to store information about a program.
• RAM is used to speed up the process of opening and runing programs.

Now after I learned all that I started to evaluate my computer useage. Every time I booted my computer, it loaded around 20 or so programs. This was causing a 'bottleneck' of information and my CPU was on overload trying to load the programs because I simply didn't have enough
RAM. I came to realize that the less amount of programs you have starting up during your boot, the faster you computer will boot!

Keeping a clean desktop (having a lot of desktop icons can slow down boot times as well) and minimizing the amount of startup programs you have will greately increase your boot times. I only had to do this once....until I upgraded to Wndows Vista. Once again, the vista boot time droped dramatically. After I did it once in Windows Vista I went from a slow boot to a speedy boot.

Check out this video tutorial on how to get a faster boot time.