Taskbar temporarily freezes and not visible during startup (XP)

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Hi-

I am running XP Pro SP2. When I boot up and the desktop appears, the
items in the bottom bar are not visible for about 30-60 seconds until
just before the boot process is complete. Specifically, the "Start"
button, the "Systray" items in bottom right corner, and the "Quick
Launch" items are all sort of boxed out - icons missing. When the
entire boot process is about to complete, they are the last things to
appear. My boot takes longer than it should (over a minute).

I have 2 GB RAM, running an Intel E4300 duo core. I do not think it
is hardware related, unless it is the hard drive, because I just built
a new system and transferred my hard drive - and the problem persisted
(previous system was Athlon XP2700, and the same exact thing happened
there). This Windows build was a clean install only 3 months ago, so
it's not a case of a whole lot of junk accumulating over the course of
years.

I have run Startup Inspector for Windows and the only things that
launch at startup are my soundcard driver (Delta 1010 LT), the video
control center (ATI Catalyst) and "ctfmon". Verified the same with
msconfig.

Any suggestions?

It's obviously not catastrophic, but I would like to fix whatever is
causing it.

Thanks!
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