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I'm not highly technically competent. I just purchased a new laptop to replace my five year old Toshiba Satellite. New one is an HP 8510W running Windows XP Pro. 2.2GHz/2GB/100G7200rpm/DVDRW/abg/GNIC/15.4" WSXGA. I am pretty frustrated that the boot up/shut down takes so much longer than with my old toshiba. There is much on this install that I simply do not need. I read up on nlite and it sounds very appealing. Especially since my habit of dealing with cleanup, defrag,viruses, and malware is to perform fairly regular reinstalls of the complete system on my laptops. To do this more quickly and "unattended" would be very nice. I'd like to have an install disc with necessary drivers and xp updates/fixes, without any of the outlook express, IE, media player, etc, but am not confident enough to know just what can be safely left out. Is there a good "bang for the buck" list of the most burdensome, least necessary, XP Pro things to leave out of an Nlite installation? I read through some of the tutorials and the process seems pretty straightforward. I just don't know how to determine what is safe to remove. I did not see any mention in tutorials of things like help files (google is always quicker and more thorough), screen savers, artwork, bells, whistes, etc, etc. Would anyone be kind enough to provide a good general list? I guess If I could get an XP install with only the drivers necessary to keep the HPs hardware fully functional I'd be happy. Thanks a lot!