Off and on, I hate programs that mess around with startup registry, without informing user - ie real player, quicktime. My pc takes a while to load windows (when you get the blue progress bar inside rounded rectangle at startup). But i have quite a good CPU (3.4ghz with ht) with 2gb ram (DDR - not sure of speed). Some times I tidy up my machine (ive got 200+ ie favourites to sort). But (often when im programming) I want to do stuff fast, so i just dump a file in some folder, forget where it is and never bother to sort it. When I first load windows and click start menu, it can take 4/5 seconds, mind you im loading lots of services at startup. Do you know any ways to make a pc load super fast? Does the start menu add alot of processing time onto startup.