XFCE takes a really long time to start

I've had it start on this laptop way faster before, but somehow I did something to it to really slow down its boot. You know the default startup splash, how it has a pulsing mouse? It used to start in 1 or 2 pulses, now it takes like 7 or 8. Is it trying to connect to samba shares or something?

Sounds silly have you got localhost in /etc/hosts
/etc/hosts example
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# End of file

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Have you tried analysing differences between files that it goes slow on and files where it goes quickly? Sounds like there is some difference in file data that causes it to do a lookup. If the traecs are not finding the differences, it might be wortwhile to put the file data into Excel for a slow and a fast and compare field level data?
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