Vista Boot is slow, general help

I'm a big fan of this site, and the people here seem to be extremely knowledgeable. So I joined to hopefully get some help.

Ok, the gist of my problem is that Vista is booting much slower, and aspects of Vista aren't working correctly (like my Services.msc hangs and is blank). However, said services do show up in Safe mode. I'm more concerned with just the overall slowness, though. I'll try and explain as best I can. A few weeks ago, vista crashed completely, I was running auslogics disk defrag and upon a reboot vista wouldn't load. After much frustration and googling (on a separate computer), I created myself a recovery disc and basically ran through the bootfix options, which included deleting the old bcd and rebuilding it. After that, vista ran once again, but was noticeably slower. I then partitioned my hard drive and put my personal files into a different partition (I thought that might be good in case vista died again), and kept vista/program files on the c drive.

Now, here's what I know: I ran chkdsk and everything was fine, memtest was fine, bios memory tests were fine. I have very few services/processes booting up, I'm careful about that kind of thing. Plus, prior to this point (prior to crash), I've gone through all the speed up/performance tips located on these forums. I also have no spyware/viruses according to my software.

I am unable to do a reinstall, as I do not have installation discs, and I got rid of the recovery partition a long time ago. I also do not run system restore. So yea, I know the combination of that isn't good, but whatever.

Basically, what I'm looking for is for someone to analyze my system and pinpoint everything that's wrong with it. I realize that's probably a tall order, but obviously I'd be grateful if someone's willing.

I'm running Vista Home Premium x64 on an HP laptop dv2840se, with 4 GB ram, and x2 AMD 2ghz processors.

If you need logs/reports/etc. please let me know what you need and how to provide that to you, and I'll get it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if there's any other information you need, again let me know and I'll provide it asap.

Welcome
Lets start with the easy way. If this does not work I will give another step. I dont want to confuse by giving you every possible solution. Lets go one at a time and do it right
Try a clean boot to diagnose
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
If this does not work there are many other steps that we can make to help diagnose; event viewer, safe mode (to see if it is a driver) . performance monitor, etc
Lets go slow and one at a time. Sometimes too much at once does more harm than good. You will be helped.

I already use msconfig to limit the boot services and processes, and the only things loading besides Microsoft services are the Alps touchpad, RK launcher (a dock program), and Comodo Internet Security. Everything else in the "Startup" tab has already been disabled. Plus, the services tab I've done previously using services guides found here and through BlackViper's site, and done through the services control center app.

One thing, I don't run any of the diagnostic services, if you want to go to event viewer and things like that, I'll have to turn those on, correct?

And one more thing, recently my laptop has been unexpectedly shutting down/restarting randomly upon waking up from sleep.

Lets go with the slow computer
Update and make a full anti virus scan
Download and run an updated malwarebytes at full scan
Go to this site and see if there are any problems that would cause you not to be able to upgrade to Seven
Free Download PC Upgrade Advisor Windows 7 Hardware Programs Issues
Im not selling Widows 7, just looking for any hardare problems

Found a couple viruses/spamware issues upon scanning. I guess a firewall and anti-virus aren't quite enough. The windows 7 tool pointed me to a couple upgrades that I'm downloading currently. I'm also downloading a new antivirus to double check everything.

Laptop is still booting slow, though, after said removal of malicious items. I'll edit this post after doing the recommended windows 7 driver upgrades.

Take your time, one step at a time. My hope is to have you A-1 when we are done.
You also need malwarebyts.
With all respect an additional element is needed, common sense. Stay away from those type of sites.

For Vista, too
Optimize Windows 7 - Windows 7 Forums

Ok, I'm now spamware/virus free. (Some of it was false positives and tracking cookies) And I do have malwarebytes. I downloaded the updates the Windows 7 upgrade tool advised, installed them, but when I ran the upgrade tool again it still showed the same drivers that needed to be updated to what I had already installed.

And the windows 7 optimizing tips are the same as the vista tips, which I've done already.

Still have the same issues as originally reported. What's our next step?