Originally Posted by Xepidemic

and another one i always do...
determine the irq of your System CMOS/Real Time Clock in device manager. now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl in regedit. make a new dword IRQxPriority, x being the irq number of your System CMOS/Real Time Clock and set the value to 1. should give your system a boost!