Not to disagree, but I think system startup and services should be left alone for this, especially services. Very easy to accidentally stop a service you think is not critical when it really is.
I used to get into trying to maximizing performance by turning off services, and to be honest it never made a lick of difference to performance or boot time in my tests. Now I just leave those service alone.
Startup items are certainly something to worry about once you start installing other apps, but my point in this post was to minimize any other program/driver interactions by only installing XP and SP2 and then testing the TI and Virus Control. Obviously if it all works well with only the minimum installed, then you know your issues are with other programs and drivers interferring with the TI and you can troubleshoot from there.
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