[SP3 made system booting slower]

Well I didn't notice any performance slow down but specifically "booting".

I'll disk defrag. though

[SP3 made system booting slower]

Hello there,

I downloaded windows XP SP3 update & and installed it.

But since I downloaded & installed it this month (or maybe October 2008) I already had post sp3 updates running on my machine. so I didn't experience any changes in the system since sp2.

But one change I observed for sure is it takes double time to boot. the blue strips at the booting are now ~15-17 which earlier in SP2 were ~8.

Did everyone experience this change?

Is it just me, or SP 3 really makes your system boot slower?

Thanks