[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by monkey

Well I disabled most of the items from the startup menu but it didn't help much. I checked HDD for errors using Western Digital tool but again no solution. So I ended up using Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools which made some changes to registry. After this there was gud improvement in the start-up time. I re-installed everything back (with items being added to the start-up menu) and the performance is much better now. I will use the system for a day or two before confirming if the problem has been solved.

@ilugd: If you have genuine full license of Ad-Aware then you will have to get new Key everytime the software is installed after formatting. The license is based on Hardware-Print of your computer and this Print changes everytime the Windows is reinstalled.

Hardware print doesn't change on every install of any OS.

Eg. my LAN Card's MAC Address. Its not going to change forever (unless the chip inside it is changed).

Its foolish to say this.