How to improve boot time

[bueller555]

I just built my first pc using the non-gaming budget build specs and was wondering on how I might be able to improve my boot time on the machine. I'm not interested in overclocking since it's an office machine, but improving the boot-up time is highly desired. Any suggestions on tweaking any of the bios or Win7 settings is appreciated. Thanks.


Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2
CPU AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition
Ram G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

[RickyTick]

Exactly how long does it take now?

[bueller555]

I haven't timed it, but I'd just like to know if there are any shortcuts to getting the machine to boot up faster. Since I don't know much about the bios settings, the only thing that I've done is to flash the bios with the latest version. I haven't touched any of the configurations.