If you loaded it using Stardock Central browser - use that browser to uninstall

make sure you go back to windows default theme first (1st choices on the left in WB's list)

or you can try The Zapper

it wont be windowblinds sucking up the resources, as far as i know windowblinds uses less resources than the default lune theme does, i could be wrong, but before u go deleteing programs that u dont need to check everything else first, you may find a piece of rogue spyware or a corrupt program causing these issues, another reason could be your graphics adapter, laptops are notorious for having vastly underpowered graphics, check that you have enough video memory as well, good luck

even 5 minutes to boot up is unnacceptable in my books, my system runss windowblinds, objectdock, right click, iconpackager plus anti virus and firewalls and still takes less that 2 minutes to go from power on to logon to fully booted, but it is probably something in your system causing these problems because if it was windowblinds dont you think the forums would be full of people with the same problem

perhaps you need a new laptop....you should able to boot up within 1-2 minutes tops....

Why don't you just calm down and go back and read Reply # 1 Bichur told you how to remove The offending stardock product.. Or maybe it's your Laptop just doesn't have the power to run it. They are only trying to help.

chill out, people are giving you other reaons why you may be having issues, if you can't handle being told it may be your system and not the software then don't come to the forums asking questions, and you were giving the solution for removing stardock products in reply #1, and no we are not defending stardock products, it just pisses people off when people are only too willing to blame something else for a problem which could be their own making, so take the advice that is given and check out any other issues that could be causing your problem and stop being defensive, we are trying to help and if you can't handle that then maybe these forums are not for you.

I stand corrected, but only on ONE issue. Bichur did give me good advice. However, the rest of you are WRONG. I just uninstalled WB and everything SD and guess what, my boot up time is now back to less than 5 minutes again. So let's see, my boot up time prior to installing WB/SD = less than 5 minutes. Boot up time after installing WB/SD = 10 + minutes. Boot up time after uninstalling WB/SD = less than 5 minutes. So that can mean only one thing, WB/SD was causing my increased boot time. I guess now everyone's going to tell me that my eyes are brown when they're actually blue.
As far as being pissed off, yes I got pissed off because while Bichur gave me the tool to remove WB/SD, everyone else got on the bandwagon to say how there was NO WAY WB/SD could have increased my boot time. However, I just proved everyone wrong.
As soon as I receive my copy of CS3 I'm wiping the hard drives on both my systems, which I do once a year. I was going to do it a couple of weeks ago but decided to wait until I get the Master Collection. I always do that to make absolutely sure any cr@pware is gone, which includes WB/SD.
One thing I don't understand is why there is no way to uninstall WB/SD from Add/Remove programs.

The 'only' way WB/SD could cause that IS a corrupt install. It happens but the odds are against it. And there is a way to uninstall it. Object Desktop is in add/remove programs. Uninstall that.

if it's crap then why are you here?, just because you had problems with it doesn't make it crap. could it be that your system was crap? (waits for response)

a newly discovered oxymoron perhaps?

Something at bootup is loading which Windowblinds has issues with.  My guess would be a browser attachment/plugin and/or malware.

Most machines running XP should boot in under 3 minutes  [mine has a crap-load of things on startup but is little more than 3].

Run the proggy called 'Hijackthis' [available via Google...free dl]...and post the results here.....I bet it'll make a lengthy read...