Long boot up time

[AdamDuritz99]

So I told someone I would clean up their system (spyware and whatnot). Anyways. They have a terrible boot up time. It's longer than 2 mins. I can't seem to get it to speed up. I don't know if it's software or hardware related. It does boot up faster in safe mode though.

Specs
Dell Dimension 2400
2.5 P4
384 MB PC2700 ram
slow ass HD (80gig)
Intel extreme (LOL) graphics chip
Windows XP Home SP2

Anyways, after I cleaned it up and added additional 256MB of ram, It's running great, other than the 2 min boot time. I did disable the NIC card to make sure it's not a network delay, but it was still a long boot.
I did a bootvis but I'm really not sure where to go from there. The optimize on bootvis did nothing to fix this problem. Here's a copy of my bootvis record: Link

So what should I do to fix this?

peace
sean

 

[Frew]

why is that in a zip file?

 

[JBDan]

You use ad-aware se and the latest updates to clean that pc? If not get it: its the real deal for spyware. www.lavasoftusa.com

 

[AdamDuritz99]

it's in a zip b/c it's orignally like 24MBs, now it's only 4MBs

Yes I use adaware (reg & safe mode), spybot s&d (reg & safe), spywareblaster, avg (reg & safe), uninstalled useless software, etc

peace
sean

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Well comparing my pc bootvis it looks like the shell is what's taking so long. Any ideas about that?

 

[Balin le Savage]

Will they let you reinstall Windows? That usually clears up any boot-time problems.
I assume you've defragged and all that..

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Yah, i've defragged it.. no success.
I'm trying to avoid reinstalling windows, b/c they have a lot of software they don't want to reinstall and what not

 

[zerocool84]

have u gone into msconfig and turned off everything you dont need to start up? get some type of program that will clean the registry also, i have regcleaner but cant find it up anywhere any more

 

[ssvegeta1010]

have you directly cleaned out the windows/prefetch folder?

EDIT: I have a long boot time and my prefetch was stuffed with extra crap

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: ssvegeta1010
have you directly cleaned out the windows/prefetch folder?

EDIT: I have a long boot time and my prefetch was stuffed with extra crap

o yea thats a good place to start also