14 minutes?! It sounds like you have a lot of stuff, or something freakishly slow, running at startup that is bogging it down. I don't think I've ever seen a PC take that long to be useful - even a P2-400 *dog* of a laptop running XP Pro on 128MB RAM.
I've only had limited exposure to Vista, mainly helping other people setup new PCs, but one of the things I noticed was it did start fast and I could get Firefox running in just a couple of minutes from power on - but this was on recent hardware (AMD Turion X2, Core 2 Duo, etc) with 1GB RAM or better.
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I've only had limited exposure to Vista, mainly helping other people setup new PCs, but one of the things I noticed was it did start fast and I could get Firefox running in just a couple of minutes from power on - but this was on recent hardware (AMD Turion X2, Core 2 Duo, etc) with 1GB RAM or better.