"JamesJ" wrote in message
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I don't worry about it. I just do those things for myself.
I defrag, maybe once a month. I just feel the more items running
slows my system down. And since I've been tweaking Vista services
I've noticed my system starting faster and not having to wait for 5
minutes
after the desktop shows up before I can do anything.

James

You need to check your startup programs, from your startup folder and
registry startup keys, if you're waiting 5 minutes before you can do
anything.
I timed my Vista system from completely powered off to loaded a web page in
IE in under 90 seconds.
My XP system does the same within 3 minutes, including time it takes to
process group policy settings.
I defrag my XP system once a year, and I do a LOT of file processing.
That's not installing/uninstalling some shareware products. That's
routinely copying/deleting 1.5GB worth of data files at a time.