Hi magicandre1981, Im wondering if your still willing to have a look at start-up times etc. I have gone through your tutorial and the HDD optimisation you linked to and have made it a little faster but it is still very long time. I have narrowed the longest time down to the WinlogonInit and PostExplorerPeriod sections of the log generated but in the services are im unable to find much after the initial changes i made. Before doing your tutorial i also went through my usual speed up routine which i have attached which hopefully didn't cause this problem but basically it uninstalls unneeded/unused software, checks for virus/trojan/etc and removes old drivers. I have attached the before and after XML summaries but the etl's before is 480KB and after is 603KB. What is it that you would need if you were going to look? Best regards, JohnC. summary_boot_before.xml summary_boot_after.xml speedUpRoutine.txt