So I’ve been having issues with startup time of my laptop, over the years its been getting slower and slower. The standard thing that appears to happen with Windows Machines. So the usual approach is to reduce the number of programs that setup when windows is initially loading, nice and easy using either msconfig or a program like spybot.
This made a difference for a while but it turns out that there is another thing that will really help with windows startup. Something that I really really cannot believe, it turns out that on startup Windows looks through all your files and folders on your Desktop. So if you have loads of files and lots of folders (with files within them) then windows spends most of its time looking at them.
So my question is Why? So far I’ve not come up with an answer that I can think of to why this is a good idea. So to everyone out there with slow machines at startup, please please check what you have on your desktop!
May 26th, 2010
Fascianting; and odd. Thank you.