from boot, windows xp pro on my dell mini 12 seems fast. however, when I try to shutdown. things are quite slow. At times it takes around 5 minutes and it is still not off. What I do is I manually turn it off using the push-on button (and I do not know if pushing that button is in itself safe)...Can anyone suggest what I can do to speed things up....TIA

BTW, I have already updated the XP Pro to SP3 since the OS is genuine...