My macbook pro 13 inches starts extremely slowly.

I did not use it almost 6 months and kept it in a neoprene sleeve and store in book rack. RAM 8GB DDR3 installed by store when purchased. recently worked well. Remaining HDD available space greater than 500GB. Hardware test even could not finish a whole night and notice "main board under test process. Anyone can help to resolve it. Thanks and regards

Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63b) - Uptime: 0 days 0:23:35
Disk Information:
TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (628.6 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8 
USB Information:
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro
Kernel Extensions:
com.avast.AvastFileShield (1.0.1)
com.avast.PacketForwarder (1.3)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[not loaded] ftp-proxy.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist
[loaded] com.avast.account.plist
[loaded] com.avast.crashreport.plist
[loaded] com.avast.daemon.plist
[loaded] com.avast.fileshield.plist
[loaded] com.avast.kexts.plist
[loaded] com.avast.proxy.plist
[loaded] com.avast.regapp.plist
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.avast.helper.plist
[loaded] com.avast.install.plist
[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.avast.install.plist
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher.plist
[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist
User Login Items:
iTunesHelper
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Adobe Version Cue CS3
avast! Preferences
Flash Player
Growl
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Picasa.plugin
Bad Fonts:
None
Top Processes by CPU:
    4% WindowServer
    2% mds
    2% SystemUIServer
    1% EtreCheck
    1% helpd
    0% fontd
    0% PhotoStreamAgent
    0% fseventsd
    0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
106 MB   Dock
51 MB    mds
41 MB    Finder
33 MB    WindowServer
25 MB    coreservicesd
25 MB    EtreCheck
16 MB    SystemUIServer
16 MB    loginwindow
16 MB    PhotoStreamAgent
8 MB     aosnotifyd
Virtual Memory Statistics
6.02 GB  Free RAM
602 MB   Active RAM
313 MB   Inactive RAM
1.08 GB  Wired RAM
467 MB   Page-ins
0 B      Page-outs

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