Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Yep I've disabled tons of services and such. It's very streamlined. I don't know what it is, but whatever process that happens during the welcome screen takes ages. I've been debating on switching to Linux for this reason, Linux boots up super fast, can only imagine how fast it would be on this machine. And if something does get held up at least I would be able to easily troubleshoot it as I'd have some screen output to go by.