XP Home Version Bootup Slow

Dont really think streamlining your boot-up is gonna work here. dont know the system specs either but in case this is a pentium 3 or higher with 256mb or more i would advice to save your data ( on network, cd, or different partition ) and reinstall the machine. get it all patched up at microsoft site till service pack 2 and install some virusscanner like norton. then u should be good to go again....

Greetz,
Yorno

Two things I have found make for
"slow/boot-slow running mach".
First, go to "run". Type "msconfig".
Startup tab, "disable all". Then reboot.
Should notice a difference.
ALSO, go to "Spybot.com. Download "Spy Sweeper"
This will help remove trojan horses, adware, spyware, and keyloggers. This will also help!

Downloads.com get sypbot and adawarese there are free versions but if you are serious about cleaning up your computer you will buy the full versions. you can also run a free trojan a worm check at trendmicro.com. if you have weather but or webshots loaded on your machine I recomend deinstalling these items the computes on my network with the most problems have had these two services running once removed and cleaned up the issues were resolved.

I would definantly use a system restore. Start -> run -> type 'msconfig' and press ok -> Press Launch System Restore. Restore the computer back to a date before the problem happened. This will fix the problem 90% of the time.

Jake
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Did you experience the slowdown after installing Service Pack 2? I had the exact same problem you had before with my desktop computer running XP Home: long time before XP boot screen pops up, and long time for XP to finish loading. As of now, I don't see any good fix, though I know of two things that might fix it. 1.) Uninstall SP2, and install a third-party firewall. 2.) I haven't seen if this works, but you might want to try reinstalling all your drivers after SP2, and do a defrag. SP2 seems to make a mess on your harddrive, and may mess up your drivers by overriding/overwriting with it's own.

a first step to diagnosing the more common bottlenecks ... Driver problem (update all drivers to the most updated versions)or faulty hardware, check your event viewer in administrative tools control panel for any problem hardware errors look in your system information and see if there are any known problems..Check all your system devices.
if you have a ton of things loading in the system tray every time you start up the computer, then yes, its gonna take 5 min.
Defrag and run check disk. Run sfc /scannow
More ram is definately another option, how much ram do you have/ When did this start?

Try a diagnostic start up loading only basic devices and services using msconfig general tab.