In this fast-paced era, many people often send out “I really hope that there will be more hours per day”. But how can we make the day more than 24 hours? joke? No, it is still possible! Although we can't change the real time, we can get more effective "utility time”. In fact, you only need to do some simple things, you can use 24 hours to complete 36 hours. Just from the point of view of computer operation, we can make every day & nbsp; extended & rdquo; 1 hour. Note: The following news is not an exact calculation, just a divisor. Speed up, grab the BIOS first. After pressing the power switch, the computer first runs the BIOS detection system. Although this process is very fast, we can make it faster. 1. Remove the floppy drive test The newly purchased machine basically does not have a floppy drive. It is completely unnecessary to query the BlOS self-test. We can manually set it to none. Here, the Award BIOS is used as an example. For other versions of the BIOS, refer to the manual that came with the motherboard. After booting, press the Del key to enter the BIOS setup interface, select the Standard CMOS Features via the arrow keys and press the Enter key to enter. Also select the Drive A & rdquo; with the arrow keys, and then press the PageDown key continuously to the item. The value is None. Similarly, set the following "Drive B" to None, and set the following Floppy 3 Mode Support to Disabled, press FlO to save and exit. 2. Reduce the boot device query In the BIOS we can set the priority boot device, many people set the first boot device to the CD-ROM drive or floppy drive, but in fact most of the time we boot from the hard disk, so set the hard disk as a priority Booting the device can also save a little time: the BIOS setup main interface chooses to enter Advanced BIOS Fetures, select First boot device, press PageDown to set the value of this item to “ldd; HDD- O” (the first partition of the hard disk), press the FlO key to save and exit. 3. Speed up the self-test speed. During the BIOS self-test, some hardware tests should be repeated several times. If you set the Quick Power On Self Test in Advanced BIOS Fetures to Enable, you can skip the duplicate test and save time. Close the idle IDE channel Right-click on the desktop “My Computer", select “Properties", in the Open System Properties window, switch to the "Hardware" tab. Then click <;Device Manager", expand “IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller" in the window that opens (different motherboards show slightly different here), then right click on “Secondary IDE channel” And “main IDE channel", select “property", in the Properties window, switch to “Advanced Settings”. If the current transmission mode is displayed as “Not applicable” and the device type is optional, this is an idle IDE channel. Leave its device type unset to “no " Remove the parasites in the startup items. Now the application is squeezing into the Windows startup items. In fact, most applications do not need to be automatically started with the system. This will slow down the process of system startup. We can manually pick up these free-riding guys. First open the folder "C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup" (username varies with each computer), delete the application shortcuts that do not need to be started automatically; then click “ Start → Run & rdquo;, enter “ msconfig & rdquo;, press the Enter key, call out the system configuration utility, switch to & ldquo; start & rdquo;, will not need to be with the system to start the program before the cancellation of the hook, OK can. Tip: Some programs in the startup item can not be canceled, such as some graphics card drivers. If there is a failure due to clearing the startup items, you can reselect them. Rarely used fonts, too many fonts, especially large Chinese fonts, not only affect the startup speed of XP, but also reduce the daily operating efficiency of the system. Therefore, we can move the fonts that are not commonly used out of the system font folder (C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts) and put them in other locations for temporary storage, such as D:\\MyFonts. If you need to use a certain font temporarily, you can first enter the C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts folder, click “file → install new font”, bring up the dialog box, find the required font file in D:\\Fonts, Then be sure to uncheck the "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" item, and finally click “OK” Shutdown also speed, XP run Windows XP will shut down the program, will send a message to the program that is still running, and give them nearly 5 seconds for the aftermath. We can shorten this time. Thereby achieving a fast shutdown effect. In the Registry Editor, expand [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktopl, then double-click to open AutoEndTasks on the right, change its value to 1; then change the value of HungAppTimeout under the branch from the original 5OOO to 50O. Change the value of WaitToKillAppTimeout from 20000 to 2000. After the restart takes effect. The shutdown speed will be significantly faster. Tip: Windows takes a lot of time to detect hardware devices when booting, so you can disable them for devices that you don't use. For example, still expand the "floppy controller" in the device manager, right-click "Standard floppy disk controller", select “ disable & rdquo; If necessary, right click on it and select “Enable”