Slow boot and performance in general

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I installed XP a few months ago and it seemed to boot pretty quickly at first, at least as compared to ME. However, it now seems to be booting more slowly all of the time. I've run disk cleanup and defragmented the disk, but with little result. When I look at the tasks running and the performance, I'm getting relatively low CPU utilization, probably averaging at best 40% during boot and startup. I believe it ran much higher early on.

I'm wondering if the disk is going bad and generating a lot of read and write errors that are slowing things down. Is there a utility to monitor disk IP, much as the task manager allows you to watch processes, memory and CPU utilization?

Regards,
Matt
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