Menu Bar icons at start-up have slowed?

I can't determine what could be affecting this, because it seems to have a life of its own. When I start up my (two year old) mac(book pro), everything is fast and sleek apart from the icons at the top right; the battery status, the clock etc. I have to sometimes wait about half a minute extra for those to load. This has been a problem for a few months. Then, a few weeks ago, the problem just solved itself, and they loaded in seconds. Yesterday, though, they went back to struggling, again. They took about half a minute and, when they did load, the bluetooth symbol had shifted to the right of Spotlight, instead of being leftmost. No idea why?
How can I check up on my start up process? What could be affecting these icons? Why did it fix itself, and then slow again?

You can always revised the location of the icons on the right by holding down the command key while click and dragging the icon with the track pad button. It would be helpful if you told us which MBP you have (processor), how much ram, how much free space is left on the hard drive, what general maintenance you do or not, how many icon are sitting on your desktop... The first two items can be part of your display at the bottom of every message by putting them into My Settings.

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