That's some heavy-duty checking. I am not about to try to go through
the process again to see if it goes any quicker this time. :-)
It probably would have helped if I was installing XP with SP2 (circa
2004), rather than the xp released in 2001. It is good for a laugh to
sit back and read all the "exciting" add/propaganda from microsoft
while you're staring at the install screen though...