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StartupSelector Saves and Swaps Your Windows Startup Configuration

Windows: StartupSelector is a simple application for saving your Windows startup configuration and swapping it with previous backups for customizable startup configurations on the fly.

After installing StartupSelector you can do two things: save your current startup configuration or restore a previous backup. Whether you want to see if radical changes to your startup configuration actually make a difference in your boot time or you routinely switch between what applications you need to access ..read more

Although I covered most of the ways to speed up Windows boot time in another article, I encountered a unique roadblock recently that made me write this article.

During the last week I was asked by a customer to upgrade one of their office computers from Windows 98SE to Windows XP. Normally this is pretty standard, however because their current hard drive was only a 20GB with a gig or so remaining I wanted to upgrade their hard drive as well.

I ..read more

One of the questions I am often asked is how to speed up the time it takes Windows to load or boot. There are a variety of factors (both hardware and software) involved in lowering the amount of time it takes for Windows to load. I will go over most of these ways in this page starting with changes in the system BIOS and moving onward from there.

All of these changes are optional, and do not need to be carried ..read more