Start-up slow...please help

[katastrophe]

whenever i turn on my computer it takes a LONG ASS TIME to start up. is there anything i can do to make the start up faster? i limited the programs to almost nothing and checked for viruses/spyware/adware and nothing came up. its only slow before the welcome screen and after i click on the administrators account. when it reaches the desktop picture its fine but it takes 10 minutes to reach that point. please help me. i have Windows XP SP2.

[MuNxMuN]

it's like that for me too, so i just leave it on stand by instead of turning it off

[AspirinE]

Do disk defragmentation, and dont be suprised that its a slower start up if ur hard disk is almost full.

[Restlesswon]

happened to me to,clean your registry and it will be back to normal

[ek_iz_backk]

as a last resort you can compress your hard- drive and take sum things off of startup

[katastrophe]

thanks for all the help guys...i appreciate it