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Vista can boot faster on a multi-core processor - hoax
Sun, 2007-09-09 11:24 — admin Hoax
The following hoax is making the rounds. The truth is that the setting you're encouraged to change should in all normal cases be left to automatic. The following instructions are believed to be pure snake oil, but they are repeated here, just in case you want to test them anyway.
Instructions
This hint is only useful if your computer has more than one processor core. Modern processors that have two, four, or more cores can benefit from this.
A few people have mentioned that with the tweak, Windows Mail starts instantly, as opposed to needing several seconds before. This is unexpected, because it shouldn't have anything to do with booting. If anybody can confirm or even explain this, please add a comment below.
Warning
This is not for the faint-hearted. Some users have experienced various problems after applying this tweak. On some computers an activation was required. Also if you're using Bitlocker, you'll want to make sure that you've got access to the BDE FEK file or the recovery password. When you reboot after applying this tweak, it will trigger the BDE boot protection.
Step by step tweak instructions
By default, Vista boots only from one core. To use more cores already at boot time, you have to change a manual setting as follows.
The speedup may not be overwhelming, as much of the boot process is disk-bound, but I guess we gladly take what we can get for free.
User result statistics
If you decide to try this anyway, please see the results of others and report your own results here. If you don't want to vote right now, but just want to look at the results, click below, then click on the Results tab.
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Sun, 2007-09-09 11:24 — admin Hoax
The following hoax is making the rounds. The truth is that the setting you're encouraged to change should in all normal cases be left to automatic. The following instructions are believed to be pure snake oil, but they are repeated here, just in case you want to test them anyway.
Instructions
This hint is only useful if your computer has more than one processor core. Modern processors that have two, four, or more cores can benefit from this.
A few people have mentioned that with the tweak, Windows Mail starts instantly, as opposed to needing several seconds before. This is unexpected, because it shouldn't have anything to do with booting. If anybody can confirm or even explain this, please add a comment below.
Warning
This is not for the faint-hearted. Some users have experienced various problems after applying this tweak. On some computers an activation was required. Also if you're using Bitlocker, you'll want to make sure that you've got access to the BDE FEK file or the recovery password. When you reboot after applying this tweak, it will trigger the BDE boot protection.
Step by step tweak instructions
By default, Vista boots only from one core. To use more cores already at boot time, you have to change a manual setting as follows.
- Click on: [Start]
- Click on: Run...
- Type in: msconfig
- Click on: [OK]
- Click on the tab: Boot
- Adjust the number of cores to the number your processor actually has.
- Click on: [OK]
The speedup may not be overwhelming, as much of the boot process is disk-bound, but I guess we gladly take what we can get for free.
User result statistics
If you decide to try this anyway, please see the results of others and report your own results here. If you don't want to vote right now, but just want to look at the results, click below, then click on the Results tab.
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