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Slow startups are usually due to a lot of "stuff" loading on startup.
Most programs that install themselves to load when Windows starts will give you the option of turning that off from within the program itself. Open each program that's loading on startup...they usually put an icon in the System Tray/Notification Area...and poke around in each one's Options/Preferences/Settings (whatever terminology each uses) for a box to uncheck to disable "load when Windows starts" or "start when Windows loads" or some similar wording.
For those that don't offer a way to turn that off within the program, go to Start>All Programs>Startup and delete the entries there that you know you don't need loading on startup and running all the time.
For any that are left, go to Start>Run, type "msconfig" (without the quotes), click OK. Go to the Startup tab and uncheck everything that you are positive you don't need loading on startup.
Note that as more users learn about msconfig, more software developers write their programs to override or ignore msconfig Startup settings. That's why I recommend disabling loading on startup from within the programs themselves whenever possible.
Also, entries that are unchecked in msconfig's Startup list will not be removed if the program it's related to is uninstalled. Those "orphan" entries bother a lot of people.
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