Slow Startup problem

Every time I login in windows xp the desktop picture appears- then about 5 minutes passes and my start bar and desktop icons come up. It’s like the computer is doing nothing for those 5 minutes. I have turned off almost all of the programs that run at startup and cut down on my services. I’ve tried defragmenting, bootvis and msconfig with no luck. Any help is much appreciated.

UPDATE: I think the wireless card is the source of the problem. I seems when there isn’t an access point that my laptop recognizes it tries to connect and subsequently fails, however it doesn’t finish loading windows till it does. So I need to find a way to disable this. Thanks for the assistance.

Try re-formatting yer PC.

This isn’t much of a solution, but may help in identifying the problem:

I used to have a similar problem. I found that if my network cable wasn’t plugged in, it wouldn’t happen (ie. unplug network cable before switching computer on, plug in only after windows loads).

My solution was to go with a format, though, as my last format before then was more than 2 months ago…

Have you got quick start on?
Have you messed around wiht msconfig lately?

What do you mean quick start? I wasn’t aware there was a quick start option.

hsadan- wow sounds weird, actually the network cable isn’t plugged in, its running on wireless.

and reformating sounds like overkill for this problem

Well I guess Seb is talking about the quick start option found in most BIOS settings (it just skips all the unecessary POSTs), but I don’t think it will solve your issue - since yours is more windows related than BIOS related

Microsoft has put out a very detailed white paper that might help

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/fastboot-winxp.mspx