Slow Booting PC

Keano

I have been having a problem for the last week or so and hopefully someone here can help. Whats happening is when I boot up the pc everything starts up as normal and my wallpaper appears but it takes at least a minute for my desktop icons to appear. I have disabled most startup items and my desktop only has only 5 icons. I tried a startup optimizer program (name eludes me) that was recommend on a post similar to this but that has not helped. Not a major issue but being a self confessed computer geek it is annoying me I cant fix it

unnameduser

presuming that you have emptied your startup folder and unticked (some of) the items in the startup tab in Msconfig, I would think that perhaps you have some spyware that is kicking in when you boot up.

Some other ideas:
You didnt set up any logon scripts to run by any chance?
You don't have 2 Antivirus progs installed?

Have a look at the task manager on startup and see what is soaking up CPU or RAM. Identify the process.

Redisle

Clean up temp files, defrag? May just help..
maybe run some scans, adaware, ccleaner.. ?

nightfox

Have a look at all the programs that are running that you probably don't even need.
http://www.speedupmyxp.com/msconfig.php

Also could be a spyware or trojan problem!