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EDIT: This seems to be a hoax as confirmed by Gizmodo. My apologies.
Are you running Windows Vista? Chances are you are also sporting a dual core CPU.
Did you know that Vista doesn’t take advantage of more than one core during boot? Go Microsoft!
Fortunately, you can easily change this using the system configuration editor.
1. Open the run box by pressing the Windows button + R.
2. Type ‘msconfig’ in the run box:
3. Click on the Boot tab, then click the Advanced options… button:
4. Click the check box next to Number of Processors and select the total number of cores that you wish to use:
Nice! Let us know how much this decreases your boot time in Windows Vista.
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Tags: Boot, Tweak, Vista, Windows
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Thanks for the tip! I’ll bookmark it for when I have to switch my Windows OS to Vista.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
LOL, thanks Mr. Gates. It does not suprise me that you are still on NT. :p
June 24th, 2008 at 8:08 am
It didn’t work for me. My PC started with a blue screen of death. Had to start Vista in Fail-Safe mode. But I have a beta BIOS version on my A8N-SlI motherboard - so maybe that is the reason.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:09 am
It works a bit - I only went from one core to two - but the change isn’t that great to make this absolutely necessary. Try changing the maximum memory as well - that seemed to help even more for me at least.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Are you sure, that this option increases performance? AFAIK this option is just supposed to reduce the number of used cpu cores. So if you hav a quad-core-system, you could say /numproc=1 to just use one core (for example to increase stability of programs which have trouble with multicores)
June 24th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Whenever I’m over at Bill’s house, I see him using Windows 95.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Good tip. But hopefully it will decrease boot time, not increase it
June 24th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I don’t think this is true. Check out this forum response, http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=164165&sid=e271bac5a9b5b8178e0424c037f4fc1f
June 24th, 2008 at 8:40 am
“Let us know how much this INCREASES your boot time in Windows Vista.”
:)
June 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Thanks for the comments peeps. Obviously I can stick foot in mouth AND post about Windows Vista at the same time. :)
June 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I have only one choice and that’s one processor even though I have a Dual Centrino processor. Do you need to be running the 64bit version to allow this change?
June 24th, 2008 at 8:54 am
i have Intel Q6600 ( 2.4 Ghz )
w/o this my vista load time = 17-17.5s (2x check)
with this (4) my vista load time = 15-15.5s (2x check) so its work,
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June 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Doesn’t work with me. i have a quadcore2.4, 4GB RAM, 32bit vista. have tried it by toggling it to 2 and 3 cores and the result is the blue screen of death.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Don’t seem to be able to find this setting anywhere….Oh wait I’m using Linux! Never mind!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am
total BS - this is for limiting the number of processors in order to only use X processors in the OS…
check your facts…. read up on boot.ini options from xp
June 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Tried it. Did not notice any significant speed increase. Thanks.
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June 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
no difference at all
June 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Cut my time in half, actually.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Well, there is not any evidences that this does not work. In fact, I have read some users reporting boot differences in about 10 seconds or more. But you have to change to exactly the amount of processors that you have. Changing the number to more processors them what you have does not do anything and probably could cause problems.
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June 25th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Tried this with Vista on HP DV2000. Didn’t work. Boots at same speed duo core or single core.
June 28th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Did nothing for me. Change to 2 cores (I don’t believe the default is not to use 2 cores btw).
Before change: boot time 1:40
After change: boot time 1:40
So nothing. Just a major waste of time. Couldn’t the poster verify it before making wild claims? He’s not even pretending to show his own results. Thanks for wasting my time…
June 28th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Daniel, sorry for the confusion. It stated plainly at the top of the post that this is a hoax. You must have missed it.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
MacBook Pro - BootCamp - Vista Ultimate
Boots 15 seconds faster (1 min to 45 sec.) when using 2 cores instead of one. System crashes randomly after wards though. Switched back.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Why Why Why Why Oh Why did they not enable this in the first place, those developers need a good spanking. I’ll be onto them tommorow!
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