Mak's fave is Opera, but I was able to get him to using Firefox a little more.
Have you tried a good defrag (third party app, not Window's) and Bootvis? MS no longer distributes it, but it is readily available and works great with XP:
|MG| BootVis 1.3.37.0 Download
Yes thanks. But really the goal is not necessarily a fast bootup, but I was using bootup as a test to see how fast my system was as a whole. Since its an easily definable timeframe and comparison to others.
I'll take a look at that program, but I really have no problems waiting that extra minute or two anyway.....