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J-Mac:
I thought I would add this question:

If after installing software - nothing weird; all from well-known, trusted developers - and your start-up times drastically increase, how do you investigate what is causing it and look for clues as to how to improve it?  (And please, no outlandish answers like, "Well I just install my OS and nothing else because all software is troublesome"!   :P

Darwin:
dk70 is right - I've generated a log file successfully with ProcessMonitor but I don't know what any of it means! Anyway, to address his other point, I don't have a problem with slow boots as I tend to leave my system running for days/weeks between boots (just set it to Standby when I'm not using it). However, 12 minutes plus to boot is surely abnormal, even for XP Pro, and I can't figure out where the problem lies. Thus, a tool that would help me diagnose this, and ProcessMonitor looks just the ticket, will be most welcome. So, I see this as part of the effort to identify Where...the need for all this diagnosing come(s) from (rather than a quest) for wonder tool.
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I just have to figure out what ProcessMonitor is telling me ;D It looks like there are a lot of name not found errors, so I'm going to start by looking at those.

dk70:
Memory dumps and logs have never been solution to general maintaince J-Mac. You probaly have some problem but should also be careful not to make a story about XP needing an arsenal of geek tools just to survive - without having done something very wrong or been very unlucky your request is wrong, in general ;) Asking for tools to tinker with is something else.

Dont forget security or spyware/virus btw. - can make anything appear buggy. Or hardware problems. Ultimatebootcd, Memtest86 should be used http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
 
12 min boot! Alarm bells must be ringing then. Well go bootvis for hints or a nice graph showing delay but I would try to disable NIC and/or USB ports - to begin with. Would also think bios settings, drivers for hardware. Should be easy enough to narrow down.

hpearce:
as a first step, I suggest reading the event log .  it will tell you usually if you are having a problems a startup service that is timing out, for instance.

cmpm:
http://www.tune-up.com/
30 day trial with undo features

http://www.ccleaner.com/
free with undo features

http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/
no undo feature and cleans thoroughly
make a system restore point before running this

spyware programs-

http://www.filehippo.com/download_superantispyware/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_spywareblaster/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_cwshredder/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ewido/
30 day trial period

defrag with ms defrag

still having trouble after virus scanning?

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
a complete log

post here after doing the above

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php

may take them a few days to get to you
and they may have added more programs to run before posting a hijack log

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