Very slow new Satellite L40

I'd be grateful for any help you guys can give me.
I have a new-ish Satellite L40 (bought last autumn). It's a dead basic machine -- Intel Celeron / 1.60GHz / 1015 RAM -- running Vista Home Premium. It was bought just to do word processing work + some very light internet use. The problem is that it runs very slowly (including taking forever to get going when I first turn it on).
I've virus tested it to death. I regularly run spyware detection / elimination programmes. I've cut the number of start-up programmes right back. All the results say I've got a clam machine. But still it's as slow as hell. And when I say slow, I can just about make a cup of coffee in the time it takes to access the net.
I've contacted Toshiba technical support, and the best they could suggest was that I reformat the hard disk, which is pretty drastic. If anyone out there has a better suggestion, I'd love to hear it. Right now, I'm rather regretting my initial purchase.
Thanks a lot -- Max
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> I've contacted Toshiba technical support, and the best they could suggest was that I reformat the hard disk, which is pretty drastic. If anyone out there has a better suggestion, I'd love to hear it. Right now, I'm rather regretting my initial purchase.
To be honest this drastic solution is not a bad proposal.
But what do you mean exactly with slow machine???
How long do you need for a booting?
Fact is that many applications are preinstalled on this notebook and this could be a main reason for a long booting. But fact is that many of these applications are necessary to run all the notebook features.
Furthermore a antivirus program which is running in the background and could affect the booting time. Long time ago I have used the Norton Antivirus and this software was a reason why my notebook was very slow... I changed it and now I'm use the freeware software like Antivir. It's much better...

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