Slow loading on Restart

[Morriah]

Hello,

I am running XP Pro. My systems is 2.8 ghz, P4, with 2.5 gig of ram. It takes me an average of 4 minutes to restart my system. Seems to have been getting slower as of late, and I have not installed anything in almost 6 months. I have a dsl connection.

Here is a list of what I have on start-up through running msconfig. These are whats checked on:

CTDVDDet
nwiz
ccApp
CTSysVol
MotiveSB
sgtray
UpdReg
NvCpl
SBC Self Support Tool

And, in "services" (under msconfig) this is a list of what it says is running:

Application Layer Gateway - running
Windows Audio - running
Computer Browser - running
Symantec Event Manager - running
Symantec Settings Manager - running
Cryptographic Services - running
DCOM Server Process - running
DHCP Client - running
Logical Disk Manager - running
Error Reporting Service - running
Event Log - running
COM+ Event System - running
GEARSecurity - running
Help and Support - running
Server - running
Workstation - running
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper - running
Norton Anti Virus - running
Network Connections - running
Network Location Aware - running
Norton Anti Virus Firewall - running
Norton Connection Center - running
NVIDIA Display Driver - running
Plug and Play - running
IPSEC Services - running
Protected Storage - running
Remote Access Connection - running
Remote Registry - running
Remote Procedure Call - running
Security Account Manager - running
Security Accounts Manager - running
Task Scheduler - running
Secondary Logon - running
System Event Notification - running
Windows Firewall - running
Shell Hardware Detection - running
Symantec Network Drivers - running
SPBBCSvc - running
Print Spooler - running
SSDP Discovery Service - running
Windows Image Acquisition - running
Symantec Core LC - running
Telephony - running
Terminal Services - running
Themes - running
Windows Time - running
Web Client - running
Windows Management - running
WMDM PMSP Service - running
Automatic Updates - running
Wireless Zero Configuration - running
Windows User Mode Drivers - running

Is there anything here that maybe you all can see that will get me back on track to a faster start-up speed, or is this pretty normal for a system like this?

Thank you all so very much.

Morriah

[Martinmax]

man reinstal you windows

[Phippy]

In Windows, 1000 programs installed and 900 uninstalled is not the same as 100 programs installed. Meaning that if you're the sort of user (and I am) that installs and uninstalls a lot of programs to try them out, your registry is probably a bit of a mess.

At some point, I'd suggest you bite the bullet and repartition and reinstall. I recently did that after having my current installation for about 2 years and the resulting speed was amazing.