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Tuesday Tweak - Faster boot-up on a dual-boot installation
29 January 2008 in Help & Tips & Tuesday Tweaks | Comments enabled

Does your PC have a boot menu on startup? Perhaps because you’ve got Windows XP and Windows Vista installed side-by-side?

You can speed up your startup by shortening the length of time the boot menu appears, as follows…

• Click the “Start” logo button
• In the “Start Search” box, type “msconfig” (without the quotes) and press Enter
• In MSConfig, click the “Boot” tab
• Change the value of the “Timeout” box (I recommend a Time out value of 5 seconds)
• Click the “OK” button

This tweak will give your system startup a welcome speed boost, but if you want to select the secondary operating system, you’ll have to be quick!

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