I'm not making this post to diss anyone. I'm asking you to make me be more optimistic about it, that's all. You started from scratch (not using XPLite, nLite, other 3rd party tools). You're just removing DLLs and then once you find out some are needed for this game, and others are needed for that game, you put them back in. People say it might increase performance by 5%, but is all this really worth that. Some performance counters running in the background, but they are just DLL files and nLite removes a lot! If people know which DLLs they are, they can add them to the Remove Box. My main question is: What is so much more beneficial with this, than just closing down everything in Task Manager before you load a game... on a system with AMD Athlon 64 3700+, 2 GBs of Dual Channel RAM and dozens of optimizations already in effect? Just in: Drivers and threads running in the background that go beyond what Task Manager tells you generically? But nLite handles all that. Something new is added to each new version and with the final coming up on next release or one after that, more removals, and finally XP will be finished. With that said, it does seem to me, as if you're re-inventing the wheel... Oh, and, this stuff shouldn't be so secretive, either. Cheers guys, Jeremy PS: Once again, not trying to sour any moods here, just really curious about your answers to my questions. @Ripken, haven't seen you online in a while, did Punto and me finally scare you away from Hl2 Deathmatch? Sorry I pwned you so hard.