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...