My system is AMD Athlon 64 3000 Venice, 2 gb ram, 2- 7600 GT Nvidia cards & 3 hard drives. My question is on startup what is the average startup time. I'm running XP Pro and object desktop. Also, I'm running zone alarm firewall and Norton anti-virus. The system is running rather slow and I wanted to see if it's due to Norton. I have Adaware, Spybot & Windows Defender which I run once a week. I keep only the necessary programs that need to operate on startup, but it seems the system is still slow...

I just recently installed object desktop and I had a question regarding startup performance. My system is an AMD athlon 64 3200, 2 gb ram, 3 hard drives and I'm running XP pro. I also have Norton Anti-Virus installed. From what I have heard norton is a performance hog and during bootup it seems to take an excessive amount of time to complete the startup. I have configured the system by using msconfig, but with very little results. Would you have any advice on a startup configuration. Should I go...