Do you or your team, turn on computers in the morning only to wait up to 10 minutes to get going?
Read on for 5 ways to shorten that time to less than 2 minutes.
1. Start-up Programs
When your computer starts it starts several programs, my computer as I write this starts 34 separate programs on top of Windows. All these add to start-up time and most you don't use or need. We can have a look at these and disable them as required using a tool from Microsoft.
Windows XP
Go to start -> Run -> Type msconfig in the box -> have a look under the start-up tab
Windows Vista / 7
Go to start -> Type msconfig in the run box -> have a look under the start-up tab
Windows 8
Press the Windows Key + R -> Type msconfig in the run box -> have a look under the start-up tab
2. Roaming Profiles / Offline files
If you have a full server and experience long start-up times at each of the client machines then you will likely have roaming profiles enabled. This allows a user, say Dave, to logon at any computer and have all his documents available to him.
If a user has a large amount of documents then the system won't log him on until all the documents have transferred over / synchronised.
There are 2 ways to resolve this and get you going faster.
2a. Disable the roaming profile service. If one user uses one system and doesn't move around then you don't need the service enabled. You can transfer the data to system and the user can work there as required with minimal start-up time.
2b. Upgrade the network to a 'Gigabit' network. If you require the roaming profile feature, but don't want the long start-up times then you might be able to have the best of both worlds by updating your network to Gigabit speeds. Many networks run at 100Mbits, which is slow by today's standards. You can upgrade your network to run at 1000Mbits and shorten the start-up time by minutes. This isn't as expensive as you might think.
3. RAM / Memory
If your equipment is 1-2 years + then it's worthwhile checking the amount of RAM in your computer/s. The recommended these days is as follows and having less will affect your start-up time.
You can check this by right clicking 'Computer' or 'My Computer' and choosing properties. Recommended amounts for today 21/6/2013 are shown below.
Windows XP = 3GB RAM
Windows Vista = 4GB to 8GB RAM
Windows 7 = 8GB RAM
Windows 8 = 8GB RAM
4. Sleep instead of shutdown
Do you shut down the computer at the end of the night? Well running Windows Vista, 7 or 8 you rarely need to shut down your computer.
Sleep puts the computer into a low power state and allows it to start again almost instantly, with rarely an ill effect.
You can even change all your power buttons to cause your system to sleep rather than shutdown.
If you have a laptop, just to give you an idea, your machine will last around 5 days sleeping without a recharge so it's not a great drain on your machine.
5. Solid State Drives (SSDs)
It used to be RAM made the biggest difference to a computers performance and indeed it's probably still the cheapest bit of hardware you can buy. However... Using an SSD to boot your desktop or notebook, will likely change the way you view a computer. Everything will open like the click of your fingers. Programs opens instantly, programs operate effortlessly. If you have the budget, consider upgrading.
An SSD is a hard drive but not in the traditional sense, it works much more like a memory card than the old spinning magnetic disk. So where the seek time (the time required to find information on the hard drive) of a traditional hard drive is measured in milliseconds (1/1000th of a second), SSDs seek time is measured in microseconds (1/1,000,000th of a second). So when loading lots of files as in when using Windows, it smashes traditional hard drives.
They have been around for a few years now but only now are becoming comparable in reliability and longevity as compared to the standard hard drive.
A 250GB SSD from Samsung will cost around ~$210.
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