Well to start off with, there is a multitude of garbage that "Bill Gates" thinks we need and has enabled by default. What needs to be done is a little house keeping, a good site to read for XP

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

for W2K

http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

this will help you run through the services and what is needed and what is extranious garbage residing in the background sucking up your system resources.

Well, I finally Decided to Start this thing off today. I shall Add various addendums to this journal for future reference. Hardware Related for the most part. It probably will not interest many people, but I will attempt to log in some quality control issues and hardware maintenance issues.