How to make Windows startup faster
If you have ever reinstalled Windows, or had Windows with a totally clean slate, you probably remember how quickly the system starts up the first few times, and you know that after a short while, Windows takes longer and longer to startup.
A site named intelliadmin had a great blog post about some things you can do get Windows starting up at a sprightly pace again.
The tips they give are:
Clean the prefetch cache
Defragment the hard drive
Disconnect Network drives
Remove spyware and adware
and disable file and print sharing
Cleaning the prefetch cache is the most interesting to me as I had never heard of the prefetch cache before. Degragmenting and removing spyware are more obvious but no less important.
All of these tips are good things to try out, and will probably help give you a faster Windows startup time and nice performance boost.