CTRL-ALT-DEL, the old three finger salute, will bring up Task Manager, 
and you can click on the second tab and then sort the processes by cpu 
usage, to see what the hog is. You can then kill it from Task Manager, 
or use something like Autoruns to remove it from your startup entries on 
a more permanent basis. Autoruns is available here -

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx>

This utility from Microsoft, which has the most comprehensive knowledge 
of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor I've ever seen, shows 
you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, 
and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.

Later, Ray Parrish

Michael Lanspa wrote:
> Our laptops both have WIN XP Home, and often, after logging in, the system seems to hang up while trying to bring up an application or process.  Is there a way to find out when and why it's seizing up on me?  I'm thinking maybe it's a process I can either take out of the login or startup process entirely, or  take it out and call it up manually after login.
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