How to make xp startup faster

There are various possible ways to improve or increase windows XP startup rate. Few of them are easy to perform whilst some are little lengthy or contain some risks within them. Making a registry changes is one of such examples. However few of them are very positive and most feasible to perform and they give us the direct and clearly visible outcome out of these steps we perform. Here before applying any method to increase windows startup rate we need to consider what all makes a slow start up in any windows system? I would like to mention that what all needs to start a windows operating system so that it would be easier to resolve the problem. It is not good to try many things before knowing about the actual functionality of it. I have seen people are using too many speedupmypc tools to fix their Pc related or slow startup issue.

Normally whenever a windows starts it needs few basic and important entries and mainly only 3 main files to load the operating system. They are Boot.ini, NTLDR, and Ntdetect.com. These 3 files are necessary essential on prima facie basis. So in this case if essential files are loaded into computer’s memory it will work, i.e. it will be started smoothly for sure. Now you may just check the startup list of any PC and you will find many such programs that are not essential at all for booting a system. Once you know the futility of these programs for starting windows you may just uncheck them from loading when a window starts. It is very easy to do. Go to Start-> Run and type msconfig-> click on Startup Tab-> Click on disable all or u can pick the applications u don’t want on startup-> (You can also disable all, it works best 'coz its windows XP).

Another thing what you can do is- to change or reduce windows Timeout time which is 30 sec by default. This can be done from the same msconfig windows i.e. Go to Start-> Run and type msconfig-> click on boot tab and alter the Timeout value from 30 till 5 sec.

I have another way to increase windows XP startup rate. Without using any or many speedupmypc programs. It is from the windows registry. Though this involves some risk in it however if you are well versed with registry you may try it. I have tried many times and so far did not find any sort of problem with any system.

I am writing the steps to go to the registry editor and change the appropriate value.

Click on start and select run ->Type in there regedit, press enter or OK.

Go to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/.avi/shellex/PropertyHandler

Select the value in the right frame and hit

If the system asks for you if you're ok with deleting the value, confirm with yes

And come out of the registry editor.

Note- It is strongly suggested that please do take a backup before making any correction or change to your windows registry. This all can be done without any help from a speedupmypc software.