windows xp takes long to load

[robina_80]

hi guys
basically my windows xp takes a long time to load up(1 maybe 2 minutes) were as before it took seconds is this because i updated all my hardware drievrs. motherboard, pci cards and pci-e

 

[Osiris]

do you have a lot of programs running in startup?

 

[jdhore1]

also, are all your drivers up to date?

 

[Jordan Pardy]

Also how much RAM do you have?

 

[talldude123]

its in their sig.

1Gb PC3200 Non-ECC DDR Memory

 

[EricB]

most people aren't realizing that this just happens when you have a 64bit processor with a lot of programs on xp sp2, especially if you have an nvida chipset and you install the sw ide driver (you don't need it if you aren't running a raid setup)

 

[s0me0ne]

Id say no matter what just use hijackthis on your system and remove software from your startup. Stuff like quicktime, realupdate, java, etc. Its also not a bad idea to do it just because you know what starts up everytime.