Slow Boot Time on I6000D

So I am messing around with my setting and all and trying to get my boot time lower.

I currently have Explorer.exe boot up in 21.78 seconds. I used to have this as low as 18.43 seconds. I am wondering how I could possibly get this lower.

Like when I use regscrubXP to lean my registry my boot time jumps up to 34.6 seconds. All it is doing is cleaning up the reg about missing values, keys with no values, and so forth.

I have min fonts loading, only major programs starting up like virus scans, firewalls, and so forth. I also have min services starting up automatically. Was wondering if anyone has any idea what is going on. I would think cleaning up the registry would maybe hasten the boot up time by like a sec or two.

Programs I use are

Microsoft's BootVis (optimize/tracing)
Regscrubxp
Perfect Disk on perfect disk managing the log files.

Thanks for any help



Dell I6000d
1.86 ghz
1 gig 400mhz ram
80 gig HD
Intel Pro 2915 a/b/g Wireless
15.4 " WXGA
Ati X300 128 mb
Nec Dvd +- RW 6500A

 

did you put a fresh intall of xp on your machine when you got it?

i just launched firefox and it loaded my homepage before i could count off "1 mississippi".

6000d
1.6
512
60 7.2K
x300 128

 

whoops, just reread and windows explorer launches lightning fast.