I agree with all of you about shaving off 3 seconds doesn't seem sufficient enough for an operating system. I have not tried BootVis yet , but I can tell you I have tried TWEAKXP and that is def. a program many of you should consider. It's got all the tools you need to make your XP system bootup faster and as well as a lot of tweaking. It's also got a tool that it will login you in automatically so once you bootup your system no need to press crtl+alt+delete it will just bootup and come up to your screen. I have found this to be a very great assest in day to day operations. Of course I am only using this at home so just an fyi in case some of you have not heard about it. You can do a search in google once again it's called TWEAKXP so hope this will help.