Why is my laptop taking so long to boot up?

2 days ago, my laptop started staying on the black WindowsXP screen for a good 2 or 3 minutes when booting up.

This happened almost overnight.

I have performed Virus Scans, Adware and Spybot scans, but this hasn't identified anything (apart from the usual tracking cookies).

Does anyone know why this might be? and any solution?

thanks,

Matt

Why is my laptop taking so long to boot up?mcaffee

I've received complaint about this issue before. Spybot can be the reason. Lots of people encounter problems with this program.

Go to start and choose RUN and type msconfig and disable some of the unnecessary programs that start up when Windows is starting up.

Why is my laptop taking so long to boot up?norton antivirus 2007

right click my computer go properties then hardware tab. then click on device manager

is there any exclamation marks next to any of the hardware?

i say this because your drivers load at this black windows xp screen and if theres a problem with a driver it will slow this loading down
You probably have a bunch of programs starting when you computer boots up. to turn them off go to start, then run, then type msconfig, hit enter, then click on the start up tab and it will show you all the programs that start up. Only deselect items you know like itunes and such. these programs do not need to start up with your computer to be ran later when you actually need them.