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Since there are a multitude of reasons that can affect the start up speed of a system, there is no single absolute solution. As a first step, you may need to tweak your PCs BIOS utility(tap the F1,F2 or Del keys while booting to enter the BIOS.) and change the boot device priority by setting your hard drive as the first boot device. Next, you need to disable all uneeded programs tha start-up every time with windows.To do so , click 'Run' from the start menu, type 'msconfig' and press the enter key.Click the start up tab and simpily uncheak the boxes to keep items from loading . For instance , you can safely disable programs such as MSN or Yahoo Messenger.Moreover ,disable any uneeded services using the services applet in Windows XP. To access it, from 'run', type 'services.Msc' and press enter. In addition, regularly defragment your hard drive using the utility built into windows to help optimise the placement of all data on it and ensure peak access rates.