My machine now boots in 40 seconds as opposed to 3.5 minutes and everything runs in half the time.
Just timed my bootup including typing in the password; 30 seconds. Like I said it just depends on your hardware as long as you keep the registry in good order. Speaking of hardware and bootup time, does anyone remember the good old commadore 64 with the casette tape drive??? Load the tape and wait half an hour before you could play
. Games were good though, I had america's cup and a really basic golf game. I tried Linux once, redhat or something similar. It was just too much work.