I'm not sure if System Restore would do the trick, but you may as well give it a try.

Has anyone had any luck with fixing this problem? I'm having the same problem, XP boots into windows, but for the 1st min., I can't do anything but start at the screen.. Then it finishes loading and everything is fine. I reinstalled XP twice last night.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

my friend got a new system p4 2.4 256ddr gforce4 440 mx gigabyte m/b lan card it was taking 2 mins to boot took it back and it was a older lan card that was the problem new lan card and presto 35secs to boot !! re. video driver go to add/remove programs uninstall nvidia drivers . restart dont load drivers yet, go to c:/windows look for and delete anyfile to do with your video card, empty recycle bin. go to control panel>system>device manager>display adapter and uninstall it, restart go with the prompts, install driver with wizard ,restart now go to the video card driver folder and use its set up and install the same driver again this definitely worked on another computer good luck

OK LADS, I HAVE A FIX FOR THE 1 MINUTE STARTUP LAG, UNINSTALL MICROSOFT OFFICE, IF YOU HAVE VISIO, UNINSTALL THAT ASWELL, PROBLEM FIXED, IF ANYONE ELSE FINDS IT WONT WORK PLEASE EMAIL ME LEESMITH2097@HOTMAIL.COM , THIS IS SO SIMPLE BUT HARD TO FIND OUT


HOPE IT HELPS, LEO2003

One thing that you can do to find the bottleneck is to search for the "Windows Update.log". Look at the files that have been booting up, and if you are lucky, you may find the one that is slowing down your system.

Also you probably can try a "clean boot". To do that, go to "RUN" and enter "MSCONFIG". Disable all files, except the necessary files needed for Windows to run. Reboot again, and see if your system is slowing down again. If not, then try re-enabling your files one-by-one 'till you find the one that is slowing you down.

Cheers!

ONEderer

if this does work, then you can't use the MS Office anymore?