Satellite A300-1mz boot Vista too long

Hi all...
I'm asking for your support for a strange kind of problem that afflicts my *a300-1mz* since first day.
*The booting of the O.S*.(windows vista home edition) *is too long* for my patience. *Its duration* is more than *2min,30sec*.
Incredible for a dual core2duo and 4gb ram.
The screen *"please wait"* stays for most of the time.
I use always the hibernation function but sometimes I need to reboot and its duration is too long.
I'm asking you for a solution.
Thanks

Hi,
I advise you to check programs and utilities in startup option. You can start this typing in RUN msconfig.
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2996/startrup.jpg
As I now Tempro utility (Fingerprint utility if available)takes pretty much time as it scans for update
2. Defragment your drive with any defragmentator like Diskeeper, Raxco Perfect disk, clean the whole system (registry, remove duplicated folders) with program like Winutility, Tuneup

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