I'm sorry, but these really aren't the times I'd like to see, my notebook is 1.6GHz Turion, 512 RAM and I never clean install windows, seriously need to defrag have quite alot at start up (admitedlly I do cut that down every so often and then manually start stuff if I really want it) and that's BIOS checked, logged on (excluding couple of secs for username and password) and I'm ready, wireless on, sygate, AV finished their business, loaded and updated along with all the other stuff and I'm done HDD light off in about 30 secs. Poor effort people, poor effort. I wish I still had my clean install boot speed... zooooooom