IMac SLOWLY Starts Up With Progress Bar

Just the other day my iMac has started doing something very annoying: It starts up with a white screen and a gray progress bar, and it takes a long time to start. It does this each time I start it now. I have not added any new hardware/software. Any ideas?

That usually only happens if you had to manually force shut it down. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 for details.

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> I am create pure eclipse E4 application and trying to splash screen with progress bar and message.
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