Windows XP Home Edition - Now Slower Booting????

From: Billy Graham (bgrahams_at_charter.net)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:19:46 -0700

WHen I first go my new system the shut down and boot up
were lightning FAST!!, but now that I have my system for
a while it is consideribly SLOWER. I have optimized and
defragged, ad etc...The only reason I can think of is
because it got slower with time is the MANY updates I
have installed from Microsoft- seems there is one every
couple of weeks, sometimes two or three a week. If I go
to programs ADD/REMOVE there are many listed. Is this
the cause? Is there a work around? Do I need them all
with SP1 installed? HELP!! and THANKS :o)