Thread: Tips & Tricks to Speed up Windows 7 (your own build)

I don´t even know how you measured that difference of half of second

good point. I did it a few times though. If it is under 10 seconds difference it is not worth the effort.

CHood wrote: good point. I did it a few times though. If it is under 10 seconds difference it is not worth the effort. there is no hack in XP or Vista or 7 that will singlehandedly give you a 10 second speed up in boot time. you need to do several customizations with .5 second speed improvements to make a difference, in this case the two core start up option is a myth. but going down from 40 seconds to 30 seconds for a start up makes a huge...

Link to the Phoenix Bios Video: http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget ... 645/2.033/ I thought this was very interesting except it appears that it is a new PC3 bios (not sure what that means). They mention briefly that they "replaced" the bios on the 2 systems they have there. I do have RAID controller but don't use it. For timing in the video they show microsoft velocity program but i looked and it doesn't seem...

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johnp126 wrote: I thought it might be interesting to put all suggestions to speed improvements in Windows 7 in one area.. Here's my tip: Not everyone wants to spend the large bucks for a solid state hard drive for the big speed increase, but here's an article that offers a less costly speed boost: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=686&u ... l+Blogs%29 I tried this on a R52 running Windows 7, using a 320gig HDD, and my...

But isn't this just because the manufacturer gets the cheapest disk (4200RPM) and the bigger disks are just plain faster because they run at 5600/7200 RPM. It's nothing to do with size (as I tell the girlfriend ).

In this case size really does matter. See the article referenced in mgo 's post above.