Thanks for the input chaps and chapesses. Unsure of how to do multiple quotes, I will add my replies:
1. I might well be able to put in a second drive, but it's a works laptop so I don't really want to. 2. No, I won't be stopping at 65Gb. That's me just re-ripped all my CD's having previously had them as mp3. The library will of course get bigger, but it won't be quick. I am tempted to look at getting a fit-pc next year and having it as a dedicated music server/storage. That way I can get all my FLAC off my works laptop. I can also go wired rather than wireless as at the moment. 3. I agree that there's something bad about my system. It's a very small firm with a retained IT bod but he's not much good. I prefer to keep my own machine clean, but I also fiddle... Time for a full reinstall! 4. MSCONFIG - yes I am familiar and have hoovered it out as best as I dare. I attach a screenshot of those that I have not had the courage to uncheck and would be grateful for any more I can get rid of. 5. I do have a 500Gb external drive for back ups and will be backing up all my music, photos and docs before the reinstall. 6. I have ZoneAlarm running (this actually seems to take quite a while to lad though), use AVG CCleaner and Spyware Doctor regularly and its apparently all clean. Any ideas on a light firewall? Or should I revert to Micro$not's own? I never considered that the FLAC files were dragging the startup time down - but tried a defrag last week and I gave up after 14 hours and 23%! This is what brought me to the idea of creating a partition. Looks like it's a winner when I do the back up and reinstall. Cheers again for the help - looking forward to more! TG +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: msconfig.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6413| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- thurstongarden Thurston Garden SB2 - Duet Controller - NAD 3020e - Mission 773's ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thurstongarden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20903 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
