thanks guys i have turned everything off and turned servies off most of them but still it's slugish slow boot up time compaired to when i installed it and i have, not apps installd on my C: driver just windows i have no virus on the system as i virus check every day no spy ware or anything or eles nod 32 would have got, it all but my friends home prem is alot faster them mine is thats what i don't get and he only has a gig, of ram an amd 3200+ @ 1.10ghz cpu wers i have a dualcore intel @ 3.06ghz and 2gig of ram but still his is faster why may that be, if anyone can tell me.