Alright everyone, especially newbies! I stripped XP down to just Media Player 6.4 as a member here has suggested. This is the bare minimum CarPC setup that'll run iTunes and [now] Media Player with hopes to playback DVD and DVD-Audio as well as decode the AC-3 stream. This is SP1 only, and just about everything has been removed. Install size with VM disabled prior to optimization and drivers is 264MB. My smallest ever was 244MB, but that's without Media Player 6.4 and ACM support. I am waiting for my MSI 915GM board to arrive before I start some real testing and installations. On my Athlon XP 2500+ @ 1411MHz, 1GB RAM, nForce2, and 4GB hard drive, XP boots up so fast the status bar didn't get to scroll. With mobo drivers, KX Project, and ATI, the status bar barely gets halfway. I haven't even optimized the system other than a simple defrag, and it boots up faster than my main PC. Although this is useless now, my correctly modified boot screen for SP1 is now working (with "Professional" removed). Just imagine how much quicker it'll be with a 40MB/s RW transfer rate of a Sandisk Extreme IV running on my CF SATA adapter! (in theory at the moment) Last_Session.ini