Some people just love devoting ten minutes every day at work to watch Windows starting up.

Nevertheless, if you belong to the working age group, then the below listed tips will certainly prove handy in speeding up the startup of Windows.

Reduce the load from your slow computer.

Every time it starts, the system loads numerous programs.

All the icons you see in your system tray, i.e. the area adjacent to the clock, depict autostart programs.

And there are several other programs that auto-start every time your machine starts but hide their presence.

The boot up time of your machine is slowed down – a bit or a lot – by each autoloading application. And since majority of them continue running in background, they reduce the systems performance.

Before starting the process of eliminating autoloaders, it is essential to ascertain that you can undo the changes. After creating the restore point, Click Close.

If you use MS Vista, then you should select Start, Control Panel, System. In the section of Tasks given on the right side of the Window, select System Protection. Then you will see the System Properties dialog box on your screen, from which you have to select Create at the bottom of the window.

If you are an MS XP user, then select the Start button, click on Run, type msconfig and press Enter button. Vista users should select Start, write msconfig in the Search box and then press [Enter].

Then click the Startup tab, which will list all autoloading applications on your system, having a check box each. You click on uncheck an item and the program will not be loaded at the start up.

You have to select your Autoloading programs. That is the programs you should leave checked in order to allow them to autoload.

First thing first, never ever operate your system without firewall, antivirus, and other security programs.

Though having these programs installed in your machine may slow down the boot-up and shutdown speed and even lead to conflicts, the cost incurred will be much more in case these programs do not run on your PC.

Apply your own wisdom for any other program in the list. To ask yourself whether the program is a good program or not would not be wise enough. Instead, you should think if the program needs to be on always.

Following unchecking of those programs that you dont want to autoload at the start up, click the OK option and reboot the system. In case of Windows, the loading will be done with a wordy message which appear like an error message.

Simply check Dont show this message or open the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts at the bottom of the dialogue box and then click OK. The wording is a bit different in Vista.