Sometimes slow startup in XP

I am experiencing slow startups in windows XP on occassion.
My normal startup time is less than 1 minute, however for some reason the startup may slow down to take 3-4 minutes. I have very little loading on boot up and have already tried some of the things i have seen on this site. Sometimes defrag helps return to normal and sometimes not. I have tried cleaning out documents & settings folder and returned to normal startup times. But this time nothing seem to work. any suggestions appreciated.

Dennis

 

Hi densaw
Welcome to the boards! Have you tried this?

Daizy

 

try to restart in safe mode. when you boot normally then a device driver is the problem.

succes