Compaq Armada,slow as, well, you know!

[OC Guy]

My dad's Compaq Armada 7400 is slow. Very slow. No, I mean really slow! It has win 2000 pro and Novell client for win 2000. It has a PII 400 with 200 megs of ram. It takes this thing about 5 mins. to boot up! Does anyone know of any programs that might speed up the bootup? It MUST be FREEWARE! This laptop goes on a network where my dad works, thats why it must be freeware. Are there any registery hacks? Any help is welcome!

[awforrest]

I think the Novell client may be taking a long time looking for the server, which if it is not connected to the network could take a while.