I appreciate your help but something doesn't make sense. My system we are working on: AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition 8 gig ram WD 500G Caviar HD5770 W7 Pro 64 My Laptop Intel i5 337U 1.8G 6G ram 750G 5400rpm drive Intel HD Graphics 4000 W7 Pro 64 My laptop has the exact same software configuration at startup(AV, win firewall control, all cpu meter, services) but boots way faster and loads the desktop faster with a slower hard drive, slower CPU and less RAM? The drive on my desktop is only one quarter full. Could you offer an explanation on that?