Although since the invention of computers, the speed of these incredibly useful and practical machines, without which life is now impossible for humans, has greatly increased, we still sometimes have to wait to work with these devices. 

We do not mean when the computer is processing heavy and time consuming, but when booting or so-called booting the system, which has not yet literally become instantaneous, and depending on the system, seconds to boot The system has to wait.

But in the meantime, there are solutions that can help reduce system boot time.

In this article, we are going to point out some of the most important of these solutions.

The most useful solutions to reduce system boot time

Activate Fast Startup mode in Windows

Windows 10 has a feature called Fast Startup which, as its name implies, speeds up your system to some extent. Since it is a software solution available, the first step to reduce system boot time can be activating this feature. Fast Startup can be considered as a state between sleep and complete shutdown of the system.

In this case, your running programs are not saved like hibernation, but in the operating system, the system enters hibernation, which helps the system to boot faster.

But this mode does not include the system reboot, so if for any reason the system restarts or needs to be restarted, the boot time will be longer.

This feature is enabled by default on most systems, but can be easily enabled on systems that have been disabled or disabled. To do this, go to Settings> System> Power & Sleep and select Additional Power Settings from the menu on the right.

In this section, click Choose What the Power Buttons Do to see the Turn on Fast Startup option. Once activated, click Save Changes and then exit.

Set UEFI / BIOS settings

On relatively newer computers, there is also a Fast Boot option in the system BIOS. Unlike Windows Fast Startup, the Fast Boot BIOS ignores some of the initial tests to start the computer when it first boots.

For some users, such as overclockers, this feature may need to be turned off, but most users can take advantage of this feature.

To enable Fast Boot, after restarting the system, press the Delete (or other related) button to enter the BIOS settings and look for the Fast Boot option.

It is also best to prioritize booting with the hard drive. The location of fast boot settings may vary on different brands of motherboards. So you need to take some time to find the option. However, the motherboard manual can also be helpful in this regard.

Disable unnecessary programs from Startup

One of the most important things you can do to speed up boot and reduce boot time is to disable software that is running on Startup. In fact, the more active software you have in this section, the longer the system will boot.

While running some of these software (such as antivirus) is necessary from the beginning of the system boot, many of them can be disabled.

To see the list of programs running in Startup, press Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time to open the resulting task menu. At the bottom, click on More Details and go to the Startup tab.

You will see a list of programs that are running at boot time. In front of each program, the duration of the effect on the boot is also visible. You can also see the Last Bios Time at the top right.

If you see a program in this list that does not need to be run at boot time, right-click it and click Disable. Do the same through Settings> Apps> Startup. You may even see a program in this section that is not useful to you at all, you can uninstall such things.

Install Windows updates when the system is idle

Installing Windows updates is sometimes time consuming. Especially if there is a major update. You probably do not want to wait for Windows to restart and boot up after installing the downloaded updates while you are playing the game or you are about to do something important with the system. So it is better to do this when you do not have special work with the system.

To do this you need to allow Windows to download updates automatically.

To do this without interrupting your work, go to Settings> Update & Security> Windows Update and click on Change Active Hours. You can now determine what hours you use the device

. Which is usually set by users from 9 to 5 p.m. Windows then downloads and installs updates automatically when the system is idle.

Use high speed SSDs

The solutions we have mentioned so far were all software. Although software solutions are sometimes effective, they can not work miracles, but what we are about to do now really works wonders about system boot speed.

Discard mechanical hard drives, or at least use them only for archiving information such as movies, music, and so on.

SSDs are up to 10 times or even faster than mechanical hard drives. No noise. They are light and usually break down much later.

Installing Windows and applications on SSD drives causes Windows to boot very quickly and applications to run very quickly. The price of this type of memory was relatively high in the past, but now they are much more valuable to buy.

No matter how powerful your system processor is or how much RAM you have, if you do not have high-speed storage, you will not be able to enjoy the actual speed of your system.

So installing an SSD is the best thing you can do to speed up your overall system.

Use Sleep mode

Booting the system when it is in Shut Down mode is more time consuming than when you put it in Sleep Mode. If your system is slow to boot, it may be best to always put it to Sleep mode.

Do not worry about power consumption in this case, because the system consumes very little in this case compared to a complete blackout. In this case, your running programs will usually stay open for a while.

Therefore, putting the system to sleep can be a useful solution in most cases.