Speed Up Your PC using MSConfig technique...partTWO

The tab Services also shows some essential services started with Windows. Most of the shown services are from Microsoft Windows, which are discussed on the page Windows XP services. It's wise, not to disable one of those, to make sure you keep out of startup troubles. However, by choosing the option to Hide All Microsoft Services. This will give you an insight in non-Windows services. Most of the time it is completely filled with the services from security software like firewalls and virus scanners. This answers the question why your quick computers rapidly turns into a slow snail.

Please make sure that the box of Hide All Microsoft Services is checked....(this is to ensure that you can avoid to disable some important system files service.

The tabs SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI aren't that important, the tab BOOT.INI gives you some extra boot options you can turn on or off. By clicking Check All Boot Paths, you can possibly fix some boot problems. By enabling the option /NOGUIBOOT there won't be any Windows logo at startup, just a black screen (actually there is no important reason to do so......;-).

If you can see the Timeout: Box...the number currently is 30 sec. - this is the actual time which your system used to boot the Windows...it's suggest hat you can make a change for it, to at least 20 sec. which will result in faster boot.