Startup & Shutdown: Vista Considerations

One of the most advertised benefits of Windows Vista is its faster boot time than Windows XP. But it doesn’t happen without finetuning system.

Microsoft has tried to reduce boot up time by reworking its boot sequence. Even though Vista is designed to boot faster than WinXP, many of the same XP tweaks can be used to trim precious seconds from Vista’s startup time, such as using Windows’ System Configuration Utility (Msconfig) to eliminate unnecessary Startup items.
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