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Re: Re: Re: Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

sarahintampa — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:27:04 GMT

Oh bummer, it looked legit. Oh well! Sorry.

Re: Re: Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

Larry — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:14:18 GMT

This is a myth, can see more here: http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths

Re: Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

Albert1690 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:11:37 GMT

Hey, thanks for replying :) Feel much better about just leaving it; figured I should ask before doing so.

Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

SysRq2000 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:15:11 GMT

According to MS documentation this is a debug setting. It will not make your system boot any faster as far as I can understand... As northerngeek said this will only limit the number of processors used during boot.

Albert1690: How this could have negative effects on performance? Well, I guess if you set the setting to 2 cores and then forget about it (most likely scenario), and then after a few months you upgrade your system to a quad-core or better processor, you would then effectively have limited your boot sequence to only be using 2 of your 4 sparkling new cores.

My recommendation; leave it to the default setting.

Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

northerngeek — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:23:14 GMT

The same tip has been seen on sites such a lifehacker and the people there seemed unanymous after trying it that it made no difference- if I recall correctly one person claimed to know that Windows used both anyway whilst booting and this was a way to LIMIT rather than expand the use of processors.

I could be wrong though as this is coming from somebody inside MS...

Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

Albert1690 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:54:07 GMT

Would there be any negative effects of doing this?

Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

Cronan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:24:57 GMT

Brandon Paddock, an MS Windows programmer, thinks these settings are for debugging and shouldn't be touched:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=610746&st=0&p=589106010&#entry589106010

A related KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833721

/numproc=number loadTOCNode(2, 'moreinformation'); This switch sets the number of processors that Windows will run at startup. With this switch, you can force a multiprocessor system to use only the quantity of processors (number) that you specify. This switch can help you troubleshoot performance problems and defective CPUs.

Re: How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

John Ericson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:43:22 GMT

This sounds useful, but I wonder: If I remember correctly one of the big improvements in Vista was faster boot times so why isn't this enabled by default if the computer has several processors or cores?