How to use your Multi core processor to speed up the windows start up process

Suprise! You spent all that money on a fance new PC or laptop hoping to speed up your user experiance only to see an agonizing start up time day after day.

So you would think it's just a bloated OS causing the long load times. Well I say nee, nee my friend. Nee nee...

Seems that there is a fancy little setting that needs to be flipped on that is unchecked out of the box. I was happy when a friend passed on this windows secret and now it's time to share.

As a default, Vista only boots using a single core processor. Most of us now have atleast a dual core centrino laptop or intel core two desk tops we are working with. So let's review the steps nessicary to boot using all available cores to get things really humming.

1. click the windows start button and type "msconfig" in the search box and open the msconfig program.

2. Navigate to the BOOT tab and click on the "advanced" button

3. You will see a crazy little place in the top left for you to change to the appropriate number oc core processors available. Make the change to match your system, mine was from one to two cores.

4. check the box "Detect HAL" just below the core count you just changed and consider setting the memory to what you got over on the right too.

5. Hit the apply and OK buttons till you are blue in the face and then happily restart you PC as requested by windows vista.

ZOOOOM... your off now using multi core boot! Should cut your boot time by atleast 30%!!!