Yeah I found the partition when I tried installing 7 again. I restarted, hit F8 and went from there. It's fine now but I'll disable indexing too. Thanks guys

There were a couple of ,NET framework fixes last week ISTR. Though I didn't see much go wrong/slow down. Big fixes and they did a lot of CPU after install.

BTW, got process explorer?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

Useful tools from Microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027

J.

My boss's computer this week has started taking ages to boot, well over 5 minutes and a few minutes to actually login.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

I thought that was normal for windoze.

XP starts up very quickly on my MacBook Pro in a window......