I would start by getting rid of Mcafee

Just taking a glance through your log, and you can see mcafee has more than enough services and etc running to choke almost any machine..

Personally I...

It would be easiest to just repartition the hard drive., then do a clean install of 2000 or xp, Id stick with xp over vista personally.

Have you tried visiting the Microsoft Support page for this yet?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315266

They suggest to run a virus check on your boot sector, and if no virus is found to try...

Listen, I'm not saying that someone should clean their prefetch daily or anything like that, I am saying that My results with the prefetch have been that clearing out the prefetch has not increased...

Do you honestly think there is an increase in wait of up to 30 seconds at boot time? The only way you would notice a boot time increase that much by clearing out your prefetch would be if you have...

The reduction in performance is something you will probably never notice, Keep in mind every time you run an application for the first time windows is creating a .pf file, When the max of 128 .pf...