10 minutes+ to boot windows

[Andrew]

Just since today It takes me atleast 10 minutes from when
I turn on my computer to when windows is finished
booting. Everything seems to be going normally until
when the blue bar underneath the windows xp logo is
scrolling along, this keeps moving but takes about 5
minutes disappear. Then after a further 5 minutes windows
is loaded. After this eveyrthing runs smoothly without
any problem.
Anyone have ideas,
Spec of the PC is 2.6 HT Pentium4 with 1gig ram so
performance shouldnt be a problem.
Thanks in advance

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Just since today It takes me atleast 10 minutes from when
I turn on my computer to when windows is finished
booting.

See "How to Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in
Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306084). If this does
not help, check your startup settings to find out what is causing
this. Applications that start with Windows can be found here:
- the WIN.INI, section [windows], entries "run=" and "load="
- the Registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
- the folders
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\START MENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\{username}\START MENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP
See also "How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows
XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560).