Yeah you are exactly right i can't believe i didnt think of this i realised after i loaded it to usb what i was doing wrong. anyhow what i have done so far because at this point in time i dont plan to be using 98 to connect to the net i downloaded 98lite and got rid of internet explorer and all the other network stuff. i got 98 down to about i think 60mb or so.. its definatly made it boot quicker off the usb ill keep working on way to get the most speed i can out of it. if anyone wants a copy of 98lite porfessional let me know. its only about 350kb. Now i don't know much about adding registry code or doing much with registry never had to do alot with it. but can you tell me if this is right regarding ACPI. Went to the detect folder in regedit added new dword named it ACPIOption opened it added hexdecimal value of 1 is this correct. because when i did a power off and restart nothing at all happened detect new hardware still found nothing..