http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/default.asp hello all, sorry for the late post, but i came across this message and thought i could be some help. especially after all the help i have gotten here. the top link is an explaination of all the services running in the background of win xp (xp only, sorry). by disabling some of these you can get a performance boost, a noticeable one at that. don't worry it tells you which ones you need and which ones you are safe in disabling. the second link deals with the regedit feature. i have used a lot of them my self (from both sites) and let me tell you, my pc runs very well. i am really anal about getting the most from my pc and i can say with some certainty that you will get some performance from your machine from using these sites. one of the ones that helps is the "always uload dll's from memory" tweak. this one works really well! i have to text files filled with performance tweaks, if anybody would like to have them just let me know and i will post it in this thread. hope i was of some assistance! eb