• 23
  • Jun

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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  • 24
  • Sep

mad tux
image via lwn.net

  1. Every little bit of speed helps when you are trying to get to information. You can add the following to your GRUB menu (usually on the second line). The way that you can edit the boot parameters in the GRUB boot menu varies by distribution. The GRUB menu will usually tell you what to press to edit the boot parameter when you boot. Don’t worry about messing up, it is not permanent.

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