xp now takes 6 to 8 minutes to boot. Have disabled indexing and update services — nohelp. StartCop shows gui_dat.exe is running but cannot disable it Is it a valid file? Should I rename or delete it?

I’m here to let everyone know… NEVER, NEVER, (I repeat) NEVER buy a PC without the System Operating CD. If you’re buying from a “reputable” PC dealer that sells New Systems, then they’ll have the CD in the store. If your right up front with them (What I recommend from the get-go), I say, “I’m shopping for a PC, WITH the Operating System. I won’t take any PC that doesn’t have it, Don’t bother giving me that crap about Not needing it…. they usually go into their standard hogwash about about not needing the CD because we have system restore, & or system recovery on a hidden partition.” The bottom line about the System Recovery partition (usually D:\) is..#1. it takes up between 5-10 GB you could be using. #2.. The longer you own your PC, the less chance you have of that recovery partition working. I’ve gotten many Windows systems in where the owner swore they were told, “They didn’t need the OS CD, because they installed a System Recovery Partition at the factory.” When I try and use the Recovery partition to go back to the Factory default.. a system file is corrupt, & it won’t work.The other excuse salesman/women (got to be politically correct) use for not giving the OS CD is, “You have a Utility that lets you create your-own recovery CD. The problem is, by the time people get around to making, the files are corrupt, & or lost so the Utility won’t work. Bottom line, it woly costs Dell, HP, Tobisha, & the rest of them Pennies to create a CD with each PC they create. They do make the CD, & the CD goes into the box with the systems, but they are removed at the stores.. So these stores have the CD’s. And the ones that don’t can get them easily. What-ever you do.. don’t buy into this garbage of not needing the OS CD’s