Quote by warwickshirefun
personally sounds like you have got some services running that are taking awhile to start.
have you installed anything recently ?
have you got any items in the startup ? click start - all programs - startup
are you on windows XP ?
What Antivirus software you got on ?

Quote by meat2pleaseu
Sounds rather like there's a problem with the hard drive, do you hear any clicking, ticking or what i suppose you could describe as revving (the disc speed increasing then dropping back)
Also, have you had any error messages?
You could try right clicking on 'My Computer', select 'Manage', select 'Disc Management' and see what it says for the C: drive. If it doesn't say healthy then there's definitly a problem. I'll have a think about other things to try or check