Here's something everybody here already knows. And you all tried and found unhelpful. So it is a perfect opportunity to make a fool of myself by posting an imagined hot tip :).msconfig has a boot.ini tab with an Advanced button wherein you can tick your choice for the number of processors used while booting Windows.Speeded my very sadly unoptimized rig from 5+ minutes to 3+. And I only have a dual core.

>Here's something everybody here already knows. And you all>tried and found unhelpful. So it is a perfect opportunity to>make a fool of myself by posting an imagined hot tip :).>>msconfig has a boot.ini tab with an Advanced button wherein>you can tick your choice for the number of processors used>while booting Windows.>>Speeded my very sadly unoptimized rig from 5+ minutes to 3+.>And I only have a dual core.This is a myth - the /NUMPROC switch is for testing specific cores during boot and stuff like that. I tried it here and saw absolutely no difference in boot time with a stopwatch with it off vs. set to 4.http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/08/09/tw...-with-msconfig/

it should not be taking you more than a minute or 2 to boot up your machine...you probably just have too many services and applications auto-starting at bootup is all. My 5 year old p4 single core doesnt take that long...maybe a minute and a half before drive completely stops loading everything here.