How can one user be faster than the other?
Check your login items. Have a look in System Preferences->Users &amp; Groups->Login Items, and delete anything you don't need starting at login. Also try cleaning up your Desktop, so the computer doesn't have to load all those little tiny images when it's busy trying to do other things. Also check if there are any launch agents running at login. (Look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ for launch agents specific to your user. To find this folder, press Shift-Command-G, and enter the above path.) You'll see things like com.skype.c2c_service.plist. You should be able to work out whether they belong to apps that you want starting at login. (If not, delete the files.)