Startup boosters are for programmers who don’t know how to program efficiently or effectively.Īll they are doing is time shifting the slow loading of Edge (which is mostly just the sluggish Chrome reboxed) to boot time instead of when you actually run the app. Those who don't use Microsoft's web browser actively, may want to disable Startup Boost as it offers no value and may add to the startup time of the system (not by much, but still).ĭuring the Beta period, Startup Boost was only enabled on devices with Edge as the default browser, and only if these devices had more than 4 Gigabytes of RAM, or more than 1 Gigabyte of RAM if a modern hard disk was installed. Not a new concept, but Microsoft notes that it will give the opening of Microsoft Edge on sign-in of a user or after closing the browser completely a significant boost.Įdge users benefit from the feature, especially since it does not cost a lot of resources according to Microsoft.

Basically, what the feature does is load core Microsoft Edge processes in the background on system start. Startup Boost aims to speed up the launch of the Microsoft Edge web browser on Windows devices. We reviewed the feature when it was introduced in Microsoft Edge Canary back in October 2020. The next Microsoft Edge update will introduce a new feature that is called Startup Boost.

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