Forum | How to speed up Windows 7 boot time

Post edited 11:52 pm – October 19, 2009 by Dave

From the blog at SneerWell at http://sneerwell.blogspot.com/…..ot_03.html

If you run a lot of applications and you think that your Windows 7 is too slow for your tastes, here is another way to speed up Windows 7 boot by enabling the Boot-Only fetching feature.

1. Click Start.


2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox, type regedit.


3. Click Regedit.exe


4. If the UAC window appears, click Yes.


5. In the registry, locate this subkey:

   HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SessionManager/MemoryManagement/PrefetchParameters



6. In the right pane, double-click

   EnablePrefetcher



7. Change the value to 2 and click OK.


8. In the right pane, double-click

   EnableSuperfetch



9. Change the value to 2 and click OK.


10. Exit the registry and restart your computer for the changes to take effect.


11. Next time you turn on your computer, the prefetcher will reserve more resources to the booting process instead of booting and application launching.