Booting taking 2+ minutes

[Gwarsbane]

ok this is what happens...

I boot computer up...
The black windows XP screen with the moving bar comes up a few seconds later...

Then I get the blue welcome screen. Now normally I am about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way through booting now (never really timed that part). This screen usually stays up for a count of about 3 to 5 and then my desktop kicks in and all the icons start loading. All this time my hard drive light is going nuts. The system tray items are loading up while the hard drive light starts slowing down, and then basically stops and that is like 44.5 seconds (yes I have actually timed this on a stop watch).

What happends now though, it gets the the blue welcome screen the hard drive lights slow down and then stop. And for about 1m45s to 2 minutes It just sits there on the blue welcome screen. Then the hard drive light starts going again, within 10 to 20 seconds the desktop icons load up agian along with the system tray stuff and once they start loading up, everything seems to load up normally.


I thought it was norton too, but I uninstalled norton and still long boot.
uninstalled adaware and spybot, still long boot.

Not sure if this will help ya or not, this is what I got from hijackthis.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 8:33:47 PM, on 3/24/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\CDAC11BA.EXE
C:\Norton AntiVirus\AdvTools\NPROTECT.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\Mixer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\atiptaxx.exe
C:\MICROS~3\GAMECO~1\STRATE~1\daemon14.exe
C:\AnalogX\NetStat Live\nsl.exe
C:\Winamp\Winampa.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
C:\Panicware\Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition\PSFree.exe
C:\Logitech\MouseWare\system\em_exec.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
C:\War-ftpd-Anime\war-ftpd.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\User1\Desktop\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = about:blank
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = file:///C:/Agent/importantwebsites.html
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = 38.136.164.130:80
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page_bak = file:///C:/Agent/importantwebsites.html
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
O1 - Hosts: 216.40.230.4 desktop.kazaa.com
O1 - Hosts: 216.40.230.4 alpha.kazaa.com
O1 - Hosts: 216.40.230.4 shop.kazaa.com
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - c:\adobe\acrobat reader 5\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx
O2 - BHO: NAV Helper - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {E82C128A-1A2C-BD6D-ACA5-A184FF41FFAE} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\kspbkcxs.dll (file missing)
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [C-Media Mixer] Mixer.exe /startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AtiPTA] atiptaxx.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EPSON Stylus C42 Series] C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S10IC1.EXE /P23 "EPSON Stylus C42 Series" /O6 "USB001" /M "Stylus C42"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroCheck] C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Daemon14] C:\MICROS~3\GAMECO~1\STRATE~1\daemon14.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CloneCDElbyCDFL] "C:\Elaborate Bytes\CloneCD\ElbyCheck.exe" /L ElbyCDFL
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Logitech Utility] Logi_MwX.Exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NetStat Live] C:\AnalogX\NetStat Live\nsl.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinampAgent] "C:\Winamp\Winampa.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [type32] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Advanced Tools Check] C:\NORTON~1\AdvTools\ADVCHK.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [PopUpStopperFreeEdition] "C:\Panicware\Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition\PSFree.exe"
O4 - Startup: Task Manager.lnk = C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
O4 - Startup: war-ftpd Ricochet.lnk = C:\War-ftpd-Anime\war-ftpd.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &IE Toolbar search - res://C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\toolbar.dll/SEARCH.HTML
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console (HKLM)
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2003120...all/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab

Even if I could just see everything in dos as its loading up without the xp screen and welcome screen that would help me as I would be able to see all the files that are loading.

BTW I turned off my net connection and booted up, still took the 2+ minutes to load.