Tricks to Speed Up the Boot Process of your Computer

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If you use your computer a lot, you may grow impatient waiting for the system to boot up. You have all this work to do, and you have to sit there and wait for the thing! Well, there are ways to speed up the booting process.

Here are a few tricks:

• Disable Floppy Drive seek. When your computer turns on, the BIOS automatically accesses the Floppy Drive, regardless of whether there is a disk in it or not. Disabling this feature can speed up the booting by a couple seconds.
• Enable Quickboot. Many newer machines come with a BIOS feature called Quickboot or Quick POST. Enabling this option makes the system bypass some of the normal tests it would do on boot up normally. It makes the process faster, but increases the chances of a hardware problem going undetected because the system doesn't catch it at the start.
• Remove the Boot Delay. Some PCs have an option to delay the booting for a couple seconds. Mainly, this is done to give the hard drive a chance to get going before the BIOS needs it. You can try removing it to speed things up, but you may need it after all.

• One last suggestion is to change the boot sequence in the BIOS. The default order is A:, C:. The computer always checks the floppy drive first for a diskette, then if none is present, it proceeds to boot off the hard drive. This can be a nuisance sometimes. You may have a diskette in there from another time, and when it find that, it gives you an error. Or even worse, you have a virus infected floppy in there, and when the system tries to boot off the diskette, the virus infects the boot sector of the hard drive. To avoid this, you may want to change the sequence to C:, A:.