Painfully slow OSX startup

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Seb Jenkins

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I have a fairly new iBook running OSX 10.3.8 and since the middle of last week, startup has become a problem.

When the machine has booted up to the point that you can see the desktop colour but before the icons load a spinning beanball appears in the top left corner and then sits there for up to 10 minutes before the desktop finishes loading, ie. the desktop items then appear.

Any ideas what maybe causing this lag ? I have tried booting the iBook with and without a live network connection but this made no difference whatsoever. I also looked in the Startup tab in the user account but it is empty apart from iTunes helper.
 
I wanted to come back and update this thread as I seemed to have cracked this problem.
Someone suggested to me that the problem was bloated font cache file and to run Font Finagler.
I did this and the startup time has now gone from 7 minutes down to 1 minute !!

Much, much better!!
 
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