Odd, the prefetch feature of XP just makes it boot a whole lot faster
then W2K or 98 in my experience. But, it depends too on how many startup
programs and services you have on each. The first thing I do is turn off
as many automatic services as possible in XP or W2K which helps.

I have a partially stripped down XP machine for audio and it boots faster than
any machine here..never a problem...at least not OS related.


John A. Chiara
SOS Recording Studio
Live Sound Inc.
Albany, NY
www.sosrecording.net
518-449-1637