This will speed up your boot time. Disable synchronous buffer commits . In the Device Manager, go to the settings your Hard Drives and CD ROMs. If any of them will allow a DMA box to be checked, you can try it. I've seen it decrease my CPU utilization.
Many programs add portions of themselves starting automatically on every login.
This can be either in the Startup Folder or the Registry. One easy way to tell is by looking at how many icons are in your system tray. If you have a large number, perhaps unnecessary resources are being allocated them as well as increasing your boot time. Typical examples are Microsoft Office, Office FindFast, Real Player, ATI Video setting etc. This is my preference since it allows you to toggle them back on again in case you make a mistake This site is copyrighted.