>>>One more thing: Why are you shutting down? Use hibernate or sleep mode...
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>>I agree -- I shut down my laptop maybe once a month if that. Sleep mode is great -- really fast to shut down and really fast to restart, plus it auto-hibernates if it's asleep for a long time.
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>Yeah that would be the primary reason for me. Shutdown/startup is pretty damn slow. Actually boot to desktop is fast, but once the desktop is up to actually get a responsive mouse cursor takes twice the boot time again <s>...
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>In Vista Hibernate/Sleep actually works reliably were on XP it's always been a problem.

If you are referring to the hibernating problem for laptops with 2GB ram or over, there's a patch for it :-)
Jaime