strange problem in startup and in registry

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alidabiri

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strange problem in start up and strange registry
i'm looking at a friend's pc. dell pc with xp home
it's slow to bootup and shut down
it will not boot in safe mode (it lists files and stops and mup.sys)
and hdd light stays on
i looked at atart up and it has and entry
for a start up item:
it has a single quote followed by 5 small square boxes (i'm assuming it's x'01' ascii value 00 or 01
and for command has the same thing
for registry entry it has
software\microsoft\windows NT\currentVersion\windows
is this supposed to be there?
i have run ewido, avg, spybot, hijack this. non could find a virus.
what could this be?
 
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