Originally posted here by ZT3000
I'm going to bring this sorely needed single post back to life because:

Shutdowns are always fast and unless you save changes the bootup is as a normal Windows box. Saving changes upon bootup takes 5 seconds to 1 minute, on my 1.6GHZ laptop, depending on how much there is to save. Remember, save changes ONLY when you want to add something to your frozen partition setup, which I hardly ever do.
Not sure if you moved the Windows Paging file to another partition or not but that also speeds the save changes up. Also it is a good idea to move your event logs to another partition or drive as well, to have event history.

And thanks for bringing this thread back to life :-)