Speed Up Startup for 7/Vista - msfn.com

[office politics]

the link below describes how to use windows performance toolkit to speed up the boot process.

How to speed up boot process under Windows Vista or Windows 7 - MSFN Forum

Background:

With Windows XP, MS implemented a prefetcher which loads data into the RAM, when the CPU was busy, starting services, drivers, so that they are already loaded when they are needed in later stages of the boot process.

With Vista, MS improved this prefetcher and named it ReadyBoot:

 

[joelm3103]

Using Vista Home Premium here at the moment, and I must say this was helpful. After the process, it sped up my boot process by 40 secs...which is awesome for me .