To synchronize your node faster, you can easily 'bootstrap'. The UI doesn't sync, it just shows what your Core is doing. The Core is what syncs. Bootstrapping is when you download a compressed archive of the block database. It will be much faster to get that all at once, than to sync one block at a time from peers.

1. Close the UI if it is open
2. Copy and paste in terminal to first stop the core, wait for the message "ended successfully" then do next set of commands to remove db and start the core:

cd qortal && ./stop.sh

rm -R db && ./start.sh

1. Bootstrap will begin!

There are two ways you could go about this..

Option 1:

1. Close the UI if it is open
2. Stop the Core if it is running (select exit from the core icon in the system tray)
3. Locate the 'qortal' app folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME HERE\AppData\Local\Qortal
4. Locate the 'db' folder
5. Delete the db folder
6. Start the Core
7. Bootstrap will begin!

Option 2:

1. Close the UI if it is open
2. Stop the Core if it is running (select exit from the core icon in the system tray)
3. Right click start button and click run
4. Copy and paste the following into the run command

%localappdata%\qortal

1. Run it (push ENTER), and it will open the folder with the qortal db folder in it
2. Delete the db folder then start the Qortal core
3. Bootstrap will begin!