Make Vista Boot Faster, Assuming You Have Multiple Cores

If you have Windows Vista… and it boots slow… and you have a multiple core CPU… read on.  You can speed up the booting process by doing the following: “Run msconfig (type it into the Start search bar, press enter). Click boot, then advanced options. Then change the number of processors to 2 or 4 (or 8 if you’re really awesome), and Vista will use all of ’em when booting, not just a single lonesome core.”

Detailed instructions and pictures here.

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