[Arin]

For some reason, after I have xp installed for a little over a month, it begins to take so long to start up.

I dont have many things starting up when I start up and even turing them off still leaves me waiting at the welcome screen for a while, expecially if my system crashes, in which case it could take over 5 mins to fully load up the desktop and stop all hardrive and processor activity.


Any clue as to what could be going on?

[Tomay]

If the system crashes xp checks the disks for any errors (scandisk).

Check the event log.

[Newumbrella]

So did you defrag your hard disk periodically?

[Arin]

all the time.

[Four and Twenty]

perhaps you should try defaging the registry
you can download sysinternals reg defragmenter