As you may recall, I recently sought assistance in speeding up my S.O.'s XP Home machine's startup. Don and Lee gave some helpful hints; I tried various tricks-of-the-trade. Nothing improved her startup times significantly. What worked? Unbinding all unnecessary network bindings. I hadn't even thought of that as an issued, other than as one of security. We're talking reducing start time from 6 minutes to 1 1/2 minutes!
