you da man John prophet, I've had great advice from you many times and I thank you
But this time I\ve got you beat

msconfig-- I have the minimum of apps loading at startup for a long time now, just NAV, zone Alarm, scan registry, load power profile, shpc ( something for my printer) thats it no systemtray, and all that other stuff
maybe SANDRA just got me thinking too hard
after looking at a lot of SANDRA's tips they seem to be pretty general, and maybe not for my machine.
as I SAID Music Match does seem to be a resource hog
but I'd still like to get rid of the win logon splash screen
or maybe I can't get rid of it, just make it black by putting in the wrong info like X-setup says