If you are a Vista user and you too are frustrated by the normal startup time of the OS to be 10-15 minutes, then this article is for you. This becomes a real pain in the butt if Vista is installed on a laptop, because I shut down and restart the laptop everyday. Here’s a sub-tip, don’t put your laptop to sleep.
The consistent problem that I noticed due to putting Vista to sleep is that it fills up the virtual memory pages with redundant data and you will notice extremely high lags (read 5-6 minutes) even when you try to copy/cut paste even a 1MB file. That problem got solved once I got used to shutting down my laptop every night.
Back to the main tip …
- Start -> Run…
- Type ‘services.msc’ (You may need to press OK twice due to the irritating security feature. Next tip will show you how to avoid that.) and hit Enter.
- Look for a service named ‘Server’.
- Right-click on that and select ‘Properties’.
- Set ‘Startup type’ to ‘Disabled’.
- Press ‘OK’ and restart if needed.
This simple tweak reduced the startup time for me from approx 10mins to 2mins. It may be even less for you, because I have additional must-have applications that I launch at startup: Wordweb Pro, MS OneNote, Avvenu, Symantec Antivirus and SlickRun.
Feel free to share any other speedy Vista startup tip of yours.
