Thanks Adrian: Your persistence made me check again in detail what's happening during my PB's startup, and I think I have now pinpointed the error.
The long wait is after the desktop appears, with volumes, files, and folders, but without windows of open folders; the menu bar is still blank. After a minute with quite some hardisk activity, the rest finally appears.
It occurred to me that this is very similar to the time and harddisk sounds of a desktop rebuild, so here's my new theory:
Somehow, the desktop is lost and has to be re-built at every startup.
So my question is now: Does this mean my harddisk is on the brink of collapsing, or is it something that can be fixed?
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Also, what is in your startup folder? Anything unnecessary should be removed. -- Adrian
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