Slow Macbook startup?

[bneff]

For the past couple of weeks, I noticed that my startup time has increased significantly. I think it started after I did a restart following a software update, but I can't remember what update it was. Normally it's up and running after 30 sec. or so from the "gong" but now it's more like a min. till the OS is up and running. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Oh, have 1 gig of ram from the day I got it.

 

[dpaanlka]

Try disabling Bluetooth, Airport, any Sharing services, any program that launches automatically, and see if that helps at all. It may be something going wrong with one of those.

 

[WillJS]

Sys Prefs --> Startup Disk --> (Unlock if needed) --> Choose "Mac OS X on *blah blah* --> Restart.

 

[bneff]

All of those are off, and I should have mentioned it before but I tried that system preferences... choose mac osx. It didn't help. Thanks for the input though.