Just a suggestion to every one, speaking from the point of a certified(A+), bonified(cause I can acctually use that world here!) technican, it might be a good idea to also try setting your machines swap space to equal numbers. A lot of that hard drive clicking isn't so much the machine trying to read your file as it is the machine trying to open it. This causes the OS to adjust it's swap size. That's fake memory that windows makes on the hard drive, for all you non techies. Adjusting the swap size makes the hard drive move a bunch of data around to make room for more fake ram. This causes your drive to read and write like 4 or 5 times more than it would other wise do. If you match your min. and max. swap sizes windows will accept this as fact and won't have to move anything around. This could also potentially effect your load speeds since it doesn't have to pull your file through the mess of read/write windows is making. ok...sorry just had to get that out. Thanks for reading. I hope it helps!