Boot Faster

Start up can be seriously delayed if Windows if prefetching the whole world. Go into registry and edit the prefet section to only fetch the OS files. Or even do no prefetch if you want. I use a setting of 2 which prefetchs only the OS files.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

key name EnablePrefetcher
0?Disable
1?Application Launch Prefetch
2?Boot Prefetch
3?Prefetch everything

see the article at techrepublic.com for details on exactly what prefetch does and how to edit the registry.