Comments on: Tweaking Myth: Decrease boot time with msconfig

By: Aesis

Aesis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:22:18 +0000

You should note next lines from this chapter : The progress bar is set to 5 percent….(its only beginning of bootable process, what about following operations of mapping resources…)
PS Fully agree with Tim Roberts+1

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:11:56 +0000

After performing a new install of Windows 7, I thankfully performed a system backup. Shortly thereafter, I used MSCONFIG to increase the number of processors from 1 to 4. Upon reboot, my existing Windows 7 installation was corrupt and I’m forced to perform a system restore from my backup.

On another machine, I disabled the “offline files” service. Upon reboot, my Windows 7 system blue screened. Unfortunately, I had not made a backup so I was forced to reinstall Windows XP and upgrade to 7 again.

I think I’ll leave MSCONFIG alone from now on. There’s a lot of bad information on the internet on how to “fix” Windows 7 problems.

By: George L

George L — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:54 +0000

THANK YOU FOR DEBUNKING THIS!!!! There are countless crap blogs out there about this topic.

By: ITDEV

ITDEV — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:02:07 +0000

So im guessing its not a good or a bad thing to change this on a dual core laptop! But like Erik i have tried numerous ‘Tricks’ to try and speed up my boot time and again like Erik i cannot seem to get it belo 90 seconds! my laptop is new and all testing says its in tip top condition, but the boot time is really getting to me now!!

Please any tips on how to actually speed this up and not tips on what not to do would be soooooooooo apriciated!

By: Tim Roberts

Tim Roberts — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:23 +0000

The NUMPROC setting does not set “the number of processors to use during boot”. Its only purpose is to **LIMIT** the number of processors that are used during normal system operation, after boot completes. If you have a quad processor machine, and you want to do uniprocessor performance testing, you can set NUMPROC to 1. If you leave off NUMPROC, it will always be set to the total number of processors you actually have. So, the default is the maximum.

The executive summary is that, like MANY misunderstood performance settings, modifying this value can only REDUCE your overall performance.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:44:48 +0000

So, how CAN you make the boot time for Windows 7 faster? When I first read the description, I realized that it should use both processors. I still tried it, but of course it didn’t do anything. Currently my boot time (from pressing the power button to the login screen) is a little over 90 seconds. Any way to make this faster, and not just myths?

By: mr Smilie

mr Smilie — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:46:16 +0000

ooo… i better put mine back to 1 then… lol

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By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:43:31 +0000

This “trick” actually slowed my boot and shutdown times. Can anyone tell me why? My screen flashes on shutdown, reboot, and boot. I run a HP dv6171cl 2g ram(crap-top). Also how do I change drive letters without jumping through hoops in disk manager?

By: Gary Siler

Gary Siler — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:01:37 +0000

My question then is what causes windows mail and internet explorer to attempted to dim to almost an invisible site and state that these sites are not responding. Isn’t this a cpu usage issue? Sorry for the interruption

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:02:24 +0000

Sorry, but your performance issues are not related to this value. I already explained above why. Don’t ignore the facts.

By: WolvenSpectre

WolvenSpectre — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:59:23 +0000

I got a machine built by a Microsoft partner with an AMD dual core 64bit Athlon CPU. I talked to the guy who installed XP Pro on that machine (and he is also a good friend of mine) and he didn’t know about NumProc, but on my machine it was set to 1 and considerably slowed down my boot time. I also used to boot a graphic cpu monitor that would load during boot and it would show a single core running until most of the startup programs were running. It was also apparently that way on another of his several machines. So for me changing the NumProc worked, as would removing it all together.

Maybe this got started because some other people were like me and someone/something installed added it to the Boot.ini file.

By: Krestort

Krestort — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:36:54 +0000

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What does the forum think? do you love the all action superhero? Or do you hate the droning voice of the man who does nothing but action shooters?

By: bcb

bcb — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:03:34 +0000

thx..

By: hm

hm — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:54:31 +0000

Funny, cause I read about this tweak in a very respected printed magazine issue 02/2009 called CHIP (in Czech Republic)

By: Symnunamned

Symnunamned — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:35:30 +0000

Good day! bulk triphala

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:20:29 +0000

Oh well.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:32:22 +0000

@ChrisH: Thanks for the comments. I did indeed read the article — I linked to it. The option’s purpose has not changed since it was first implemented in Windows NT Workstation 3.51, therefore no additional research is required. As I quoted in my post, using this option can “help you troubleshoot performance problems and defective CPUs.”

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:26:02 +0000

Also, Whomever did this blog post was quoting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Just to let you know Chris Pirillo at that time had Windows Vista installed, which is a totally different OS than XP. Also since that post which was quiet awhile ago he has moved over to Mac OSX and has a Mac Pro, Mac Mini, Imac 24inch, MacbookPro 15inch and 17inch. So maybe you should actually do some research on Windows Vista and see if selecting more than one core actually does speed up the boot time. Why would they put that in the boot option if it didnt do anything???

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:21:03 +0000

A chat regular “SWAT” told Chris Pirillo about the core tweak, No Chris himself. How about going to the actual blog post Chris did and reading it before posting “Die Chris Pirillo Die”.

By: die chris pirillo

die chris pirillo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:26:12 +0000

Yes, DIE CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111oneoneeleventyone

By: Singh400

Singh400 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:46:37 +0000

Yes! Someone else who hates Chris Pirillo! Thank god. DIE CHRIS DIE.