[Suicide Junkie]

Upgrade to 98!

Meanwhile, you should take a look at what's starting on windows load.
Disable everything that's not nessesary. Drivers, firewall, one antivirus, and that's about it.

The rest of the stuff shouldn't be loaded until you actually want to use it, instead of wasting your time on boot, and system resources all the time.

Get Mozilla to avoid auto-installer popups and various other nasties on the web, too.

For example:
My system tray has:
-Norton
-volume control
-video driver control
-Zone alarm
plus:
- System resource meter
- Temperature monitor (reads disk/cpu sensors- C:\ =37 celcius right now)
- Trillian, since I'm using it right now.