>Hi guys
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>I have a customer with 5 XP PRO machines on a MS 2003 Server.
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>Intermittently several of the machines seems to be taking ages to boot up and logon.
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>It's paerticularly slow when the bar comes up and the line flashes across, what I meant to say is the bar doesn't move slow but it stays on that bit for a long time.
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>Any help extremley welcome

Have they checked the usual suspects?
* low disc space
* low memory
* temp folder full of junk files
* registry full of "junk" entries or contains numerous dead links
* filesystem consistency problem (i.e. when is the last time they ran chkdsk)
* harddisk needs defrag