Originally posted by Tinker
Welcome to the forum quint. Post often and have fun...

This is the first time that I have heard this request. By your question are you wanting to load only the OS and no other programs?
I know this one, it's like rebooting your PC without gong thru the BIOS screen and memory countdown, in other words like just rebooting Windows alone. I'm afraid I have not come across methods for XP to do this unlike Windows 98.