[XPize 3.2]

Looks awesome on my XP machine. You probably won't giggle too much at the irony

[Optimize Windows For Playing Games]

I know nLite is an awesome program and all (I use it), but it's not a tool for disabling services (unless it's changed massively in the past few minor point releases.)... but removing them completely. At install-time. Which means you have to reinstall your OS to do it. Which means... you don't spend time playing games. Or doing work.

So really, the answer is "That's why we have services.msc"

[Firefox problem!]

You could hop into the profile directory (c:\docs and settings\username\app data\mozilla\firefox\a few levels of gibberish\) and try to take your bookmarks.html file to a safer place before you start messing with stuff, and/or you can open it to see if the stuff you want's still in it.

[faster installation?]

nARkwS

Have you tried it on multiprocessor and older PC's?

I thought things like BIOS type (APM,ACPI) and number of processors is detected in text-mode phase.

And what about SATA/RAID drivers?

I think it is, but it still has a lot of leeway... it might get redetected again in the GUI portion. I've done an install or two of Win2k and WinNT 4.0 on a laptop without a CD drive, and the only way to do that was to use a 2.5''>3.5'' adaptor to put it in a much newer and much larger desktop machine that was available to me... So between a 2.2ghz NF2 Athlon system and a P/100 ALi system, there might not be much difference, but there might be more differences between a HT P4 or some other MP system. But the APM/ACPI bits should be alright doing a ghosting of the text-mode phase.