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That's actually not how I timed the start up. 53 seconds is TOTAL TIME from power buttom to fully loaded Windows XP desktop ready to go. That means my CPU is idle and every startup program has finished loading... the majority of the extra loadup time once the Desktop is already loaded is due to Trillian (Windows Gaim type program... although Windows has Gaim too) and the McAfee AV and Firewall. I'm sure people are able to get their Windows load times at least 15 seconds better with a better computer and less startup programs. I haven't even tried to clean up services to stop the ones that I don't need from loading. This is standard installation load times.
My breakdown just separated it into time to login screen (since people posted their times to login screen) and further into time to finish the BIOS stuff and the actual time that Windows takes... this is ELEVEN seconds compared to your 30 by the way. I'm not sure about which file system check you do, the one on my Linux computers are very cursory, and I wouldn't count it because I've never seen it catch anything other than an actually bad harddrive. Plus, the filesystem check on my computers only takes 5 seconds or less anyway. Most of the time goes to loading all of the modules.
From login screen to the desktop fully loaded is about the same for KDE, Gnome, Windows... but Windows is usually a touch slower. I timed my Linux desktop with Mandrake 10.1 and from power button to fully loaded Gnome desktop it's 1:40, which is actually very slow. I'm planning on installing a different distro on it though, so I'm not going to mess with it. My Linux laptop with Mandriva 10.2 to fully loaded KDE is just over a minute I think... and it has more startup programs on it than the desktop... it's also a slower computer. Don't really know why it works that way. Could be cuz I have the boot loader delay at 3 seconds and the BIOS stuff at the beginning is almost non-existant, just flashes a Compaq logo and then goes on... probably 2 or 3 seconds tops.
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