Back in the day { (e-mail address removed)},
Ralph said:
In the grand scheme of things, maybe 2 minutes is OK.
But XP is supposed to be the fastest loading OS yet. Now
it takes longer to boot than before the upgrade from
Win98.
If you are running XP on hardware that was old enough to have Win98
installed on it, two minutes to boot is not bad at all.
As XP "learns" your system and pushes some of its initialization to the
background, the boot will go a little faster. But with your old hardware,
you can't expect much improvement.
BTW, MS never claimed XP to be the "fastest loading OS yet." Maybe you
THOUGHT it would be, but they never said it.