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    Windows XP Abnormally Long Login Time

    Recently, my XP login time has been much longer than usual.
    When I login with whatever account I have on there, it sits on the welcome screen for about 2 minutes or so (was usually just a few seconds). Then the desktop pops up followed by Avast loading, but then sits there for another 2 minutes or so. Then finally the Volume Control , and Network Icon on the bottom right corner pop up, followed by the Login Music that is played. This usually took me only 15-20 seconds tops, but now its abnormally long.

    Things I have done already:
    -Avast Thorough Virus Scan in both normal, boot-time, and safe-mode.
    -Spybot scan in both normal and safe-mode.
    -Uninstalled unneccesary programs.
    -Deleted temp/prefetch files.
    -Defragmented.
    -Disk Cleanup.
    -Msconfig Startup Processes Changes
    -Registry Cleanup.

    After all this, I'm still hauling the annoyingly long login speeds. Anyone have any other ideas? Formatting is my last resort, or should I just bear with it?

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    After a day's research, I finally figured out the problem. Apparently, downloading 10,000 fonts isn't such a good idea... Good to learn, however.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bori View Post
    After a day's research, I finally figured out the problem. Apparently, downloading 10,000 fonts isn't such a good idea... Good to learn, however.
    10,000 wtf lol, even a decent high quality 500ish font pack will get you most of the stuff you'd ever need.

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    Yup, I remember in college our instructor gave us a 10k font disc to put on our workstations. It would take about an extra 2minutes to load fully to desktop.

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