Top three reasons for Windows loading slowly:

1. Viruses and spyware
2. Too many programs start with Windows.
3. Software or hardware misconfiguration.

IMHO that accounts for 95% of all instances of slow loading.
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"neil" <neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8ACF61CA-1CA1-4CAA-988B-7784261748D0@microsoft.com...
> I have a PC in my home with a pentium 2.8 processor with 512mb ram. Over
a
> period of a few weeks the time it take to get to the windows user logon
> screen seems to get longer and longer. When you do log into windows the
> start up music is distorted. I have run all the usual utilities
including
> defrag and chkdsk and installed new virus scanning software all to no
avail.
>
> Has anyone any ideas?
>
> Many thanks
> --
> neil