Booting time with Leopard

Question

May appear simplistic.
But it seems, eversince I had OS 10.5.6 or maybe just lately, booting seems to take a little longer.
I timed it at 75 to 80 sec. from the push of the START button until the full appearance of the DeskTop.
Ran a Dik Utility Verification, ALL is fine.
Now this could be anxiety on my part, but is this OK?
MBP 2.16 duo, 4 RAM, 30GB on internal drive.
Thank you
R

Answer 1

Try booting it to safe mode once, then normally again. If you want to, try timing it before safe mode and after. Safe mode itself will take longer because of what is going on, but maybe it will do a bit of spring cleaning. I don't have your system configuration so I can't say if that seems a long time or not.
[Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393]
[What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392]
[Safe Boot takes longer than normal startup|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107394]
Safe boot mode runs a directory check command similar to that used by Disk Utility's repair. In Tiger it ignores some stored information (cache) that is normally read that speeds up the boot process, and it moves some other caches to the trash. It also uses only System fonts and disables all Startup Items, third party items, and any Login Items.