Slow startup

[Dollar]

I have a pentium 4 PC with 2Ghz, 512RAM, Windows XP Home SP2. The time when I first bought my desktop PC, the windows startup loading bar which launches right after BIOS manufacturer, was usually loaded after about 5 times of the bar moving to the other end. But as I have used it for a long time already, I noticed that the loading bar begins to load longer and longer which now loads for about 20 times before reaching the login screen.
I have tried limiting the startup applications to solve this issue, however to no avail. Currently I have about 24 processes running at startup. However the windows startup loading bar remains to load 20 times which is abnormal and slow.

Can please leave some advice. Thanks.

 

[Cromewell]

Here's a list of tweaks you can do to decrease boot times: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/11/09/XP_startup

As well as direct from MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835557/en-gb

 

[Archangel]

would that work for xp x64 too you think?

 

[Cromewell]

The things on those links should work, XP is XP even if it's XP 64

 

[Archangel]

why doesn't it? you asked if you could get your version of windows to boot faster, how isn't that on topic?

You've got a faster boot time than me (way faster) but I haven't done a good registry clean in a long time. The things on those links should work, XP is XP even if it's XP 64

you post looks odd now,.. i deleted my post, since it looks too much like bragging to me .
(for those just reading this, I posted that my boot time was relatively fast already, and wondered if that could help it to go even faster =) 1,5 windows loading bar's atm, and would be great if it was faster )

 

[Cromewell]

cleaned up.

 

[djcon]

wouldnt a system restore help? Back-up your files and restore windows. It'll be as good as new.

 

[Cromewell]

System restore is very unreliable.

 

[djcon]

mybad, i meant like fully restore, like format harddrive and so forth.

 

[djcon]

btw, why is System restore is very unreliable?