warning: try it on your own risk!!!!!

1) Press Win key + R (or run)
2) Type 'msconfig' without the inverted commas (must have admin rights)
3) Go to the boot tab
4) Click on Advance Options
5) Tick 'Numbers of processers' and go to the maximum
6) Restart the computer

DONE

Once again, this does not increase boot times.
Read Rafael Rivera's post on WithinWindows to know why.

There is a very long thread on this, elsewhere on the site
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=9939

It does increase boot times marginally, e.g. a few seconds. Nothing the average user would ever notice and there are a lot of other methods for making Windows boot up faster.

@Andy

have you still not learned, that is doesn't improve anything?

We've had this argument before. It has marginal improvements, proven by people who tested it both on and off. Why won't YOU learn that it does have SOME effect?

I tested this before and It had no effect, I even got the stopwatch out and tested it from the press of the power button to when the login screen appeared.

The thing I noticed was that repetitive reboots will actually speed up, even though the difference is negligible, it was still noticeable. I did the first boot-up without the hack, then did one with the hack, noticed that it cut a good second or two off my boot time, and was a believer. Just to have a control, I disabled then hack and rebooted. This time another half second came off my bootup. I did a few more reboots and found that the bootup time began to become constant with or without the hack.

So the fallacy with this hack may just be the fact that successive reboots will reduce the boot time slightly. I cant see how in this day and age, with dual/quad processors being commonplace, that only one core would be used for bootup in Vista/7.

I also tested it when I upgraded from my Celeron 2,8 to Pentium 4 3,0 with HT. Even with HT and no phsyical 2 cores NUMPROCS=2 helped a lot.

I have tried this and i have noticed it boots faster, but at the same time i also choose what applications and services start up at boot. By doing both of these i have removed over 15 seconds from my boot time.

because I have more knowledge than you! Use IDA and look at the disassembled code! It fills up a variable too reduce the initialization of all CPU cores.

Are you unwilling or simply unable to understand this? After your completely ignorance I think the second one is correct. You simply don't have the AI and knowledge to understand it. So stop trolling everytime again, because you can't understand this. Windows is high tech knowledge and you don't have it!

@taza

the improvement comes from ReadyBoot! Read my How-To again!

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09 ... -msconfig/

Now I wait for the ban, because Andy can't accept that he is wrong


Edited to remove excessive exclamation marks and stupidly huge text that was unnecessary.

You're the one who is trolling, and actually flaming as well. If you want a ban you can have one. At the very least I should give you a warning for the flaming.

What YOU don't seem to understand is that other people have tried this and ALL of them have seen a difference in boot time when using it. Why can't YOU accept that it has SOME influence on boot time? I never said it has a HUGE effect, I said it has SOME MARGINAL EFFECT.

And don't be so sure you know more than I do, that's just being cocky. You don't know me at all, and you don't know everything.

THINK about your next reply before you make it.

CHILDREN, please.

People says it has a "marginal" effect, some say it has no effect whatsoever and that anyone claiming that it does is a gigantic moron.

I really am tempted to warn both Luckie and Andy since you're both flaming each other off. I can't be bothered.

Now I'm shoving this topic back where it belongs, in the coffin, under five feet of reinforced concrete. Leave it there. No-one is to bring this back up. Danke.

Hate to bring it to you, but I don't think you'd get away with warning the Admin, do you?

Wanna bet? I'd happily pay at least half of a month of dedi costs just to give you a warning

Lol... I don't even think mods can warn an admin anyway. Never tried it.