I recently recovered my pc and ever since it hasn't booted as fast as it used to. I had optimized it to boot in under a minute (with 4 bars going by) and now it's well over a minute (with 9-12 bars). I've searched all the boards I went to then and new ones and i haven't been able to find any particular optimization that would bring me back to where I was. This is very frustrating in the fact that hte boo is slower and that the disk has more on it than it did when I started taking names to my programs and backing up files (which didn't help because my friends doens' know how to restore). I've defragged every boot up, cleaned the disk, ran scans and a chkdsk. Could someone recommend something more than what's obvious?