Lot's of things can slow down booting, Joe. Mine is getting slow also.

*IF* you have some security program (Anti-virus, SpyBot S&D..etc.) set to do a scan for problems at startup, look at how much more they have to check if you have a lot of files.

You may be able to tell it (if that were the problem) not to look at certain directories, or you could put music on a 2nd (or external) HD. (I have all my Child Ballad files on an Iomega drive beside the PC....but I still have a couple thousand regular music files on C:)

Do you do defrag regularly? Having bits of files scattered all over 'might' be part of the problem....(I'll tell you as soon as *I* get a full backup & defrag completed.. *wry grin*)