Hard drive is fine and also done diskcleanup and defrag - no issues reported.
I think it is one of the progs trying to open on startup that has issues ie system boots and when i look in taskbar it starts loading then hangs for ages, then things like skype, printer and other quickly load up.
How can i view a startup process or identify if it is a prog trying to open that is causing this issue?
(doomedspeed - very apt name for my problem!)