Hello all, so happy to be a member of this great forum. Two problems that i am having at the moment. 1. Upon booting, boot is good, somewhat fast though I receive a splash screen telling me "Install failed"; i check okay and voila, no problem...just irritating. 2. shut down is really slow. I am dual booting WinXP and Win7RC(ultimate build 7100). PROC: 2.07GHz AMD AthlonXP, MOBO: Gigabyte-GA-7VM400AM(F), Bus clock: 167 MHz; MEM: Slot "A0" has 1024 MB, Slot "A1" has 512 MB. I had reinstalled Win7RC as i was having some other issues. I can boot into Winxp fine and it does not feel sluggish when shutting down. Win7 is very sluggish. Any ideas out there. Thanks in advance for your help and cheers and beers to all