Slow XP startup...

[Arin 0]

For some reason, after I have xp installed for a little over a month, it begins to take so long to start up.

 

I dont have many things starting up when I start up and even turing them off still leaves me waiting at the welcome screen for a while, expecially if my system crashes, in which case it could take over 5 mins to fully load up the desktop and stop all hardrive and processor activity.

 

 

Any clue as to what could be going on?

[Tomay 0]

If the system crashes xp checks the disks for any errors (scandisk).

 

Check the event log.

[Newumbrella 0]

So did you defrag your hard disk periodically?

[Arin 0]

all the time.

[Four and Twenty 0]

perhaps you should try defaging the registry

you can download sysinternals reg defragmenter