um....right ok that gives me a bit more to go on. You do have a fair ammount of programs loading at the start, but not enough to make it take a couple of minutes to load.

When you say a minute after the icons have loaded, do you mean desktop icons or the icons in the system tray near the clock?

Try holding shift down, if this makes it load up fast, then it is definitly to do with the amount of programs loading at start.