Slow software & very slooooow shutdown

Well I've been referred to here from the malware team.

The title pretty much describes my problems although there are other minor issues.

Software is slow to open/run and shutdown takes about 30 minutes.

http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=127220&page=1

To anyone reading this, if there isn't enough information for you to help then there should be plenty of info in the malware topic link.