How to get rid of Slow system startup?

Windows XP was designed to boot up within about 30 seconds. If you add several services it can become a minute.  If you further need multiple services such as services for Unix, etc, you might need probably up to two minutes.

Time to boot or start the computer also depends of speed of your CPU and speed of hard drive. Slow start can be a symptom of Spyware infection or bloated configuration or both. Bloat is probably the second major cause of slowness of XP after spyware infections. To access the level of bloat on a particular PC you need to create the list of services running after booting.

Steps to perform for enhancing the Startup Speed

1. Turn off automatic updates. Do them manually once a week
2. Use of Windows Protector slows down the computers. Windows Protector is a good from catching spyware point of view.
3. Weekly or monthly, defragment your C drive and other drives that you are using frequently.
4. Rarely very slow startup points that you have remote drives for which server is currently unavailable. Remove all such kind of mappings.
5. The quickest way to speed up boot times is use BootVis.exe. Although it's made initially for developers, anyone can use it to know their boot times and see what is the cause of slowdowns. This tool will automatically make system changes to speed up your boot time.
6. Depending on your system and how it's set up, you may see only a moderately faster startup time.
7. Download a free registry cleaner. Registry cleaner will remove old code from the registry that is no longer needed.
8. Add more RAM. This is basic reason why any system could be slow. Add more RAM numbers and you will rasie the speed.
9. There are my tips to fix Windows XP slow startup.

Rare causes of Slow computer Startup and ways to get rid of them

Your slow startup could be the result of an error in the Windows XP registry. It's a result of the *.*avi property handler, and has something to do with having large avi files.