How To Speed Up Vista Boot Time on Dual-Core PCs

Peter Provost posted a handy tip on his blog the other day that will be useful for anyone with a Vista computer that has a dual-core CPU. In Windows Vista, there’s a setting that lets you configure your PC to use both cores upon booting up (by default, it only uses one). You can change this setting in the System Configuration menu to get your PC to boot faster. Here’s how:

1. Go to Start, type msconfig and hit [Enter]
2. In the System Configuration Window, select the Boot tab
3. Click on Advanced Options
4. In the BOOT Advanced Options dialog, check the "Number of processors" check box, and choose 2 (or 4 if you have quad core) for the number of processors.
5. Click OK twice

That’s it! Now your Vista PC will boot up using both CPUs!