Really slow boot

Its the first time i had a quad processor, i dont if its normally supposed to be like this or not but when i boot up, after the welcome message comes up and the little spinning ring it takes a while to load. Fist it loads the welcome screen slowly then boots into a black screen with a movable cursor. It takes around a minute or more at the black screen than after a while it finishes booting and everything works fine. Anything you need to help diagnose the problem just ask.

My setup is:
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H
AMD Phenom II X4 940
2 x 1 gb Crucial 800 MHZ
Windows Vista Ultimate
Ati HD 3200 Internal Grpahics

 

Well you should start off with the READ & RUN ME FIRST link provided by MG:major ... you can access it HERE

 

What is listed on your Startup list?
Most can probably be removed to speed up your boot-time.