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Booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when power is switched on.
Let's have it in simple words that are "the process of switching on the computer is referred as booting of the computer. The word booting came from the phrase picking somebody up his boot-strap, which is similar to when user switch on the computer."

The disk from which start up or booting is done is called "Bootable Disk". It is the loading of set of programs from the ROM into RAM so that it creates an environment for the execution of commands for further processing.

The boot loader typically loads the main operating system for the computer. In this booting process, some time is consumed by the computer system. But if your computer is taking too long to boot; it means there is some problem in your computer system.

Some of the problems may be:
• Small Hard disk or Less free space on hard disk
• Installation of unused heavy software
• Improper uninstallation of software
• Corrupted System files
• High temperature of computer
• Less RAM etc.

There can be many other problems also, but these are main ones. If your computer is slowing down, i have some steps for Microsoft Windows that help to fast up the booting of your computer.
1. Ensure that there is enough free space available on your hard disk. Minimum free space is at least 500 MB. This free space allows the computer to have room for the swap file to increase in size as well as room for temporary files. You can free the space by cleaning up the hard disk and then deleting temporary and unnecessary files.

2. Run Scandisk at regular intervals to ensure that whether there is any cluster problem on the computer hard disk drive. It also helps to determine physical problems on the hard disk and helps to eliminate these problems.

3. Run Defrag weekly to properly arrange the data in sequence. This helps to reduce access time of computer.

4. Try to find out programs that run at start up. These slow down the processing of computer. Try to remove or disable these start-up programs.

5. Ensure there should be no conflicts in the device manager. If there are some conflicts, try to resolve them.

6. If you are using Windows XP, delete all files in the "prefetch" directory. These are prefetch files and can lower system performance.

7. Run the basic troubleshooting steps for your operating system. Make sure your computer and processor is not overheating, excessive heat can cause a significant decrease in computer performance some processors will even lower the speed of the processor automatically to help compensate for the heat related issues.

8. Scan for viruses; update your antivirus program regularly. Scan if your computer is infected, try to remove viruses as these slow down as well as damage the computer system.

9. Try to repair windows if these steps don't work out.

10. Finally, if these steps won't help you to improve the performance of your computer system, try to format the computer system and reinstall the operating system.

So friends if your computer takes time to boot then try these steps and improve performance of your computer system.