How to make Windows 7 boot faster using Msconfig

While the other day I was reading something off the Win 7 News newsletter i receive and there was an article on how to go into the Msconfig and set your machine to use all your processor cores during boot.  The argument was why does Microsoft ship the operating system to automatically use all available cores during boot and Microsoft's reply was that "This wasn't suppose to have an affect", however, so many users have complained that it does make a difference when this little controversial fix is done.  So on to the "controversial" fix:

Open Msconfig by clicking on Start and then type Msconfig.  Now click on the Boot tab.

Click on the Advanced options... button and another window will open which is shown below

By default the Number of processors isn't check and neither is the Maximum memory.  Click the check mark for the Number of processor and then click the drop down  and choose the number which coincides with the amount of processor cores you have, usually the highest number.  Click on the Maximum memory checkbox and the total amount of memory in your machine will be entered automatically for you.


Now the question I have is that if the check box isn't checked then doesn't that mean it will use all available processors/cores?  I would think so however, everyone including me, have seen a performance increase in the start up times.  Let me know if you don't see a performance increase after performing this little fix because there are so many variations in machines out there that some people may not see a performance increase.  I can tell you that on my machine I run several instances of Visual Studio 2010 or 2008, Firefox with at least 6-10 tabs open at any given time, IE8 running and downloading certain things, streaming SIRIUS satellite radio, outlook open, well you get the point my machine is rather fast, so if i can tell a difference then I am almost positive you should see an increase on boot times.  Hope this tutorial was helpful...