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[Hellion]

Hi, Newbie here, I have a new custom built rig that I use for gaming. The specs are listed below. Hope it makes sense. I've been having issues with my compter taking so long to boot up once it past the sign in screen for windows XP. I'm the only user account on the computer. It takes about 3 full minutes for the computer to be done signing into Windows XP, before I can open any programs up. It runs just fine after it's booted up. Plays all my games, movies, internet files, etc.. flawless. No lag. I tried the disk defrag, disk cleanup, ran a norton internet security check for spyware and viruses (came up clean), and even tried to see if another program at www.pandasoftware.com (another antivirus company that's pretty good) could find any spyware on my computer. Can any of you give me more ideas on what I can check to make the computer boot up faster? I tried running "msconfig" and unselecting everything that would slow down the bootup process, such as AOL IM, etc... Any help or advice for this noob would be greatly appreciated.

Custom Built Rig...
OS = Windows XP (SP2)
CPU = Intel C2D E6600 2.40
RAM = 2 Gigs DDR2 + 640 from 8800 GTS video card
Motherboard = ASUS NF650I PCIE QUAD-CORE P5N-E SLI
Hard Drive= Western Digital 250 Gig 10000 RPM
Video Card = EVGA 8800GTS PCIE 640
Power Supply = Corsair 620 watt
Burner = Liteon 20X DBL LYR DVD +/-RW w/L.S.
Case = Mystique Winnops Blk with Blue Neons.
Mouse = Logitech G7 Cordless Laser
Keyboard = Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Monitor = LCD Sceptre 800:1, 3 Mili-seconds Response time.
etc...

Thanks, Have a good day.

 

[meanman]

hello and welcome to the forum, the only thing i can think of is norton anti virus it is a system hogg i would get rid of it and try avg free edition combined with zonealarm firewall also free, if you are going to remove norton the best way is to go on this site
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
and use the removal tool.