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It was causing it to stall on "Loading Your Personal Settings" during start-up for the same reason I believe as during shut-down. Regardless, this program somehow fixed the problem.

It is a service. it's even listed under Services in the control panel. and before I installed the service, my system took nearly 8 minutes to boot. now it takes 1.5 minutes.

it runs constantly as a service actually but I feel as though if it ran ahead of all the other services it would make my system even faster.

Actually it's a little-known service that I found off of microsoft's website. so I can make it dependent on any service at all? it doesnt matter which? and it will then load first?

Why you ask? Because there's certain hives that are left hanging during start-up and shut-down and I need to change the order in which my hive cleaner runs.

Anyone know of a way to prioritize a service in XP so that it is either the first service loaded upon startup or the last service to be ended on shutdown? Thanks in advance.

wtf...never even heard of NOD32 or kasperksky. how could they ever compete with such a huge company like Symantec that has people working around the clock to find new threats? and is a personal firewall really necessary if I am on a campus connection?

Why is Norton Internet Security crap? I kind of like it. Corp edition doesn't protect you enough.

I bought an Asus A6NE last week and within the past two days, it's been extremely sluggish when starting up Windows (specifically, at the point where it says "Loading Your Personal Settings"). It will just hang there for about 30 seconds and then my desktop will slowly load. Norton Internet...

well I guess it really depends on what exactly you are recording (i.e. through what interface). I suppose if you are recording through SPDIF (digital) that an Audigy would suffice since all you're really doing is transferring a digital file from one device to another. I eventually went with...

ah there it goes. I had to hold the power button for like 10 seconds. thanks :D

*Newb question I know* My Inspiron 9300 just BSOD'ed on me (for the first time) and I can't figure out how to restart it. Unplugging the power just causes the laptop to run from the battery. So what's the trick?

the mbox is 1x billion times better than the mobilepre. I have used both and the mobilepre was complete shit. it just sounded awful. I returned it the same day I bought it.

ok heres some pics I just took. the package didnt arrive until 6:59 tonight (the cut-off time is 7 PM or you get your shipping refunded). overall I am satisfied with it, although I really wish Dell had included the XP OS CD since after all I did pay $99 extra for Professional edition. I am...

so who makes the best drivers then? should I be looking at third-party drivers (sorry for these questions...this is my first time owning an NVIDIA graphics card) btw I am gonna post pics of my 9300 in a few moments