Hi to all: Slow boot on Dell E310 desktop running XP Home. System boots to the desktop in less than a minute, 45 sec. But, after it appears, trying to do any work is delayed by the addition, I suppose, of additional drivers, or something or some sort of scan running in the background. It's an 80 Gb 1.5 SERIAL ATA drive. But in checking the My Computer properties it is only showing as 69.83 Gb. I know about the discrepency in the Gb, but that seems a tad out of whack. On defrag, I'm getting two red lines that simply will not disappear, and now thinking maybe the hard drive has problems. Ran all the antivirus/antimalware programs onboard, and from a known, good operating system via usb port. All checks out without a problem. When the system finally does finish the boot process, all items selected respond quickly,and without a problem of any sort. It's just the time it takes to bootup the system from start to where full operation is possible. Ha 512 Mb of mem, and I'm going to bring that up to the max, for this unit, of 2 Gb. Even with everything disabled in the Config, startup file, the boot still takes considerable time. The disk check and mem all check out okay. Has Verizon and an all-in-one printer, and Verizon security, and Spybot, etc, though I've run the hard drive on a known, good machine with all updates, and nothing reported as bad. Figured I'd try the new memory, and then, if still balky, set it to Hibernate and see what happens. Again, all is well when the boot completes, and I can access some files, programs while the unit, after desktop displays, still continues its boot or loading drivers. Thoughts? Much thanks, Jim S