In the first case, the item name was the box symbol, manufacturer was blank, and the location was the registry key. When the 2 new ones were added the difference was the 2 new ones had a name of the box symbol and a few characters after them.
I have run the removal tools for all the old security programs I've ever used, do that right after I uninstall them, lesson learned many many years ago, back when moby dick was still a guppy. Tho looking at some of what's in the application data folder, it does make me wonder, but then again, I don't know how to read the ots log.
If it matters, the first boot of the day still takes 10-15 seconds from the time that the desktop icons are displayed until the startup sound occurs, after that any boot the sound is within a second. I realize that there are things that will run that first time, but it never did this before.