The only things that I can suggest here are the standard things to start with... If you've installed lots and lots of programmes since you installed Windows, then uninstall all of the programmes that you don't use any more. Optimise your hard drive usage by a) running a full defragment and scandisk of your drive to optimise cluster arrangement, this should speed up seek and scan times (which in turn decrease loading times). If you have many system services installed other than the essential Windows ones, then either uninstall them or deactivate them from loading. Failing that, there's not really much to do... You could always clean out the Windows Registry hive as a final resort, but you should only attempt to do that if a) you've backed up your registry and have a means to restore it should things go belly-up, and b) you know EXACTLY what you're doing. :) On a note about loading times: Windows 2000 will take longer to load compared to an OS like Windows XP, but this isn't a true time - the reason XP SEEMS to boot faster is that it loads the core components on startup, then once you've logged in, it CONTINUES to load other system services and applications behind what you're doing on-screen - I hate this, because I regard it as cheating. What I like about Windows 2000 is that as it loads every single component on boot, if you have a problem you can diagnose it much more easily by doing an interactive boot. Happy tweaking, Christopher