Win2K is a dream to install compared to Win95. I remember making boot disks, starting the install, then having no CDROM when it did it's first reboot. That sucked donkey balls.The 20 progs you have running (refer to that other forum where we were talking about startup crap and task manager) are either services or startup crap. Go to the Run key in the registry (something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run... or whatever) and delete the crap that your video card (no matter which card) likes to put there. Also, set the Task Manager colums up to show you the most relevant information to you, as per that other thread... god damn, i'm lazy.
Good luck when you get to it.