After using computer for a period of time, the starting up speed of system may become slower and slower because of frequent installing new programs. The sluggish computer speed is probably caused by too many loaded programs. As a result, you can clear up programs in the startup group so as to speed up system. This is what I want to share with you in this article.

First of all, you can delete the unnecessary loading orders in the “config.sys” and “autoexec.bat”. Normally, all the orders in these two folders can be removed for sure. You can click “Start” > “Run” and type “MSCONFIG”. In the popping up windows of “System Configuration Utility”, you feel free to cross out the ticks of “config.sys” and “autoexec.bat”. After doing that, you may find it is faster to start up computer without those useless files.

Second, delete the shortcuts in the starting up group. Some software can add starting programs to starting up group automatically. If such programs are piling up excessively in this group, it is no doubt that it can slow down system starting up speed. Therefore, you can get rid of certain programs so as to improve computer booting speed.
Right-click “Start” menu and choose “Open”—“Programs”—“Startup”. In this folder, you can delete all the shortcut icons because they are quite unnecessary for computer but just slow down starting up speed.

Third, uninstall resident programs in the system. Some programs can start up as system is booting, but their shortcuts do not display in the “Start”—“All Programs”—“Startup” menu. So, you can delete these programs. In the “System Configuration Utility”, you click “Startup” tab, you can choose the resident programs that you do not use frequently and delete them. By crossing out these programs, you can speed up computer obviously.

What is more, you can finish all of the operations mentioned above by using certain orders so as to optimize starting groups quickly. However, in the Windows 2000, there is no such function. If you want to do optimization, the only thing you can do is to alter registry. Is it disturbing? As a matter of fact, you can copy this program to system folder of Windows 2000. And you can just run it.

In conclusion, slow computer speed is really troublesome, you should try every method to speed up computer.