Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> I can understand the necessities of booting with multiple
 CA> processes executing but in the case of XP I also know it is
 CA> excessive and needs trimming. 
No argument from me. The first thing I did on my father's XP machine was to
turn off a lot of services that really don't need to be running.

Ciao
Pascal

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