booting

Does someone of my fellow JREF computer geeks know how to get a program to be the very, very first [third-party] software to autostart during the boot sequence in Windows [XP]? I want my Software-Firewall to be the first software to be active before any other software is being loaded - to...

On my home computer it suddenly takes a long time to boot up. This is immediately after turning it on -- it takes much longer to start reading the hard drive before even the Windows 98 splash page comes up. It seems to run OK in normal mode after getting started but takes like 15 minutes to...

Hey, so right now I'm running Suse 9 on a POS machine. I've got 7 gigs free on a 12 gig disk (It's from 1998; don't hassle me) and I'd like to add a Windows partition for my Photoshop and Illustrator projects, since I occasionally bring work home. Also, I'm building a new box (yes!) in a few...