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Okay first of all let me explain what I am talking about in the non-technical way I understand it so we don't get our wires crossed. I am talking about when after you PC has gone through POST and you see the Windows XP logo and that little green bar moving accross the screen before the welcome screen shows and your Desktop loads and Windows startup starts.

Now obviously a way of meauring the time it takes to bootip(even if it may be a fairly stupid way) is too count how often that bar goes accross the screen. Now usually this is around 40 for me (yeah I know this is a lot...I just have a lot of junk I like to run...honestly RAP I could make your Q9450 lag as if it was a P1). I can live with that but I am curious about what is actually being loaded during this time because I have optimisation program (which I don't like using as I can't tell wether making a tick is turning an option on or keeping it on...so I would prefer not to use it again...not to mention it's not fond of ATI graphics cards and if I forget not use a certain optimisation then my whole Windows installation is history) which can reduce these 40 bars...to down to around 11.

Now I am curious what actually gets loaded during this time and what determines the length of bootup?

Also what do you think this program changes to magically alter my bootup time by that much? I have not come accross another Optimisation program that has the same result on bootup (not that I have tried too many as I only try free ones) so I am curious what this program does so radically different.

The program is a german program called XP Regtune (so I guess it just changes stuff in the registry?) which unfortunately has not been updated in ages.

Anyways this is not a glaring problem, I am just curious that's all.

Edit: O by the note that this boost happens regardless of what I turn on or off. So I can't see one of the options I selected magically creating this increase it seems to do it by default.