Thanks chaps Just recently installed XP on my machine and was supprised how many items were were running in the background from startup,used to have a utility called "End it all" for win 98 that used to shut down everything that was not necessary,improved the performanc of the likes of Duke Nukem no end did download summat similar for XP but its very complicated to use, it asks you to click on the items on start up you want to disable,but not being familiar with XP I havent a clue what is required and what isn't.
