Resolving startup delays

[darael]

Looking at a machine with XP. I know startup takes time for any machine, but this one seems to hanging for 30 seconds as the system tray icons load up, then continues with the remaining few.

Anyway of tracing the exact culprit? Have tried disabling startup items via MSCONFIG, but no joy.

 

[linktoinsanity]

Have you tried looking in startup under regedit?

Only other thing I can think of is a hard disk issue. Try disk cleanup and defraggler.