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Out of interest, have you stripped out the windows shell?

GeneralUserGuides/HTPC_looknfeel - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

Also, I was wondering what sort of "switch on to usable" speed you were getting from your frontend box?

Anything approaching 10 seconds would be fantastic! I've got it down to about 20 secs, but I think that your way might produce an even faster front end boot!

Will try it out within the next few days.

Thanks for the info.