Slow XP startup...

For some reason, after I have xp installed for a little over a month, it begins to take so long to start up. I dont have many things starting up when I start up and even turing them off still leaves me waiting at the welcome screen for a while, expecially if my system crashes, in which case it could take over 5 min ...

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For some reason, after I have xp installed for a little over a month, it begins to take so long to start up.
 
I dont have many things starting up when I start up and even turing them off still leaves me waiting at the welcome screen for a while, expecially if my system crashes, in which case it could take over 5 mins to fully load up the desktop and stop all hardrive and processor activity.
 
 
Any clue as to what could be going on?

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If the system crashes xp checks the disks for any errors (scandisk).
 
Check the event log.

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So did you defrag your hard disk periodically?

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OP
all the time.

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perhaps you should try defaging the registry
you can download sysinternals reg defragmenter