At some point "Matt", "Jon" and a bunch of others wrote in part:
I have a similar problem occuring in Windows Explorer, and
from a post I was told a virus might be causing the
delay. They recommended going to Symantec's website and
using their Online Virus & Security Checker to try to
identify it on my machine. Might be worth a try.
Hello,
I have a screaming system but whenever I right click an
icon or start button or even open up a new my computer
explorer it just sits there for up to 2-3 minutes waiting
to open.
I caught the same problem today (January 8).
Other symptums are that Microsoft Word is often delayed in
starting up:
Double click on a Word document or run Word and the
"This product is licensed to" splash screen appears right away,
but may take 30 seconds for the Word window to open.
In addition the:
"Requesting virus scan..."
line may also take 30 seconds to complete, rather than just a
second or two.
I noticed the problem after attempting to run a program a demo of
a program that was supposed to be a diagnose my computer for problems.
I don't know if the demo caused the problem, but my system is not OK
now.
