Originally Posted by
green granite
Most firewalls have a utility where you can allow or forbid programs to access the net, just find out where it is and block the ones you don't want to go on line.
GG, very true however the update module is still running to even less effect. It is true it will no longer hog internet bandwidth but it will still steal processor capacity.
E.Z.Flyer's first question was mine too. A 4-yr old laptop could well have only 512k or even 256k RAM with 32 or 64 shared for video.
My 2 year old had 256k. I added 1 Meg, I was able to run the video at 64k and this means my Pagefile is rarely half full and I have a good head of RAM available. Most importantly it cut a full 40 seconds from my boot sequence.
The other way to save boot time is to use Hibernate or Sleep when you close the laptop lid. Sleep stores your RAM image and uses power. Hibernate writes the image to disk and does not use power. IMO they time differnce is negligible.