Nobody likes waiting forever for their PC to start up, and these tricks can help speed up that process and improve your PC.

The BIOS (basic input/output system) firmware is being replaced by the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) standard interface for PCs – designed to improve software interoperability and ...

While I don't particularly care personally (reboot? Why?), it does hit my interest. XP isn't that much different to 2k, yet it manages to boot between three and fifteen times faster on the same ...

Windows 2000 seems to be roughly two minutes to boot, Windows XP under one minute. How have Microsoft done this, or should I say, what are the operating systems doing differently. I also wondered if ...

A hybrid hibernation technology lops 30 percent to 70 percent off Windows 8 startup time, says Microsoft, trying to fix an ages-old problem. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Fast startup is a handy feature on Windows that speeds up boot times by preventing the PC from shutting down completely. When enabled, it saves part of the system state to a hibernation file on your ...

How to take control of Fast Startup in Windows 11 Your email has been sent In a previous article describing how to create shutdown shortcuts in Windows 11, we briefly touched on the Fast Startup ...

To disable a program, simply right-click on it and select “Disable.” Be cautious not to disable essential system programs. Focus on third-party applications that you don’t need immediately after ...