Windows XP takes forever to load

My windows XP sp 2 takes about 2 minutes to load when I log in.

I am running a company PC with 1.5 GB of Memory and a 3.8 Pentium 4 processor. There are no viruses or spyware on my machine. The slowness happened when I installed VPN client by Cisco systems. I uninstalled the VPN client. It is becoming quite annoying...
Looked at my msconfig and I am not loading anything except computer associates anti virus, microsoft indexing tool (or whatever) google stuff... Thats about it!!!!

Does anyone have an idea of what it could be?

 

No, from what you tell us, nothing is immediately obvious, but FWIW, I'll offer what I would try:

1. Use MSCONFIG to disable your startup apps to see if the problems lie there. (Not that I really expect this, as you seem to have a handle on it, but it's an easy thing to rule out)

2. I'd start looking to see if perhaps the installation has messed up a .DLL used by one of your services, causing it to time out. Your event log would be the place to look.

If you do find errors/warnings you can't decipher on your own, post back with the event ID number, source, and exact error description.

 

Thanks for your imput...
I have nothing in the logs. I have Microsoft fax warning and I have an error with Windows Search. I only installed search on my computer a week ago so I know that is not the issue.
This has been going on for a while.

Microsoft fax does not seem to be it since my coworker has the same warning but his loading is not slow...

 

Have you done the basic maintenance?

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106650

 

I was about to ask the same... if we have managed our startup programs, and performance still hasn't improved, I would begin looking for a hardware problem.

My recommendation would be to trim the startup apps and services, and if that doesn't help, run chkdsk /r, and/or Memtest

 

I did all of that clean up stuff and I already have Ccleaner.

Chkdsk sounds good to me...
I will do that and repost the results.

Thanks for the help!!!