XP extremely slow boot up

I have booted up in safe mode and that seems fine and takes a normal amount
of time to get up and running but when I try to boot up through the normal
login screen it takes forever as in grass grows faster. Once it gets to the
screen where the users are listed, it virutally freezes. The color bar
doesn't even move. You can here the HDD making a pattern of noises
(dttt...dt, dt, dt, dt). It has done this for awhile and would evetually boot
but now it takes 2 or 3 minutes just to get to the password window and it
goes to sleep before it ever boots. It's a Compaq laptop that orignally had
ME on it. It has a 20G hard drive and 256M of ram. It's been great for about
a year but now it's doing this. How do I tell whats running that doing this?
Thanks
.

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