Ok, I've got an incredible screamer of a system here: super-high-end Asus workstation 
mobo, dual-core 3.0GHz Intel processor, 8 GB RAM, 3 TB of attached hard disk space. 
It finishes some tasks so fast I sometimes doubt whether it did anything at all (it 
always has).

So why does it take 11 MINUTES to boot?

Oh, the system and disk adapter BIOS pages zip by fast enough, and the desktop picture 
shows up quickly enough, but then TEN WHOLE MINUTES pass before I can actually DO 
anything!

The desktop icons don't show up for 6 of those minutes (i.e., the desktop background 
picture ONLY shows for 6 of those first ten minutes after the BIOS pages go by)!

And once the icons show up, it's still FOUR MINUTES before I can double-click anything 
or open the start menu!

I need detailed instructions on exactly how to find out what's taking all this time. 
 There's absolutely nothing unusual or fancy or at all tricky in my setup.  I know 
there's a Microsoft tool for monitoring processes and the like, but that was more 
of a hassle than it was worth (too MUCH data!)  What I'm looking for instead is something 
that sits and watches and accumulates the total time each process took from point 
a to point b (and not, like the MS tool, a huge, highly repetitive list of every 
single process and every single millisecond it spent!)

Can anyone help me out on this?

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