Just recently some of my programs have been taking 30 seconds to a minute to open for some reason. Two examples of programs I use often that are doing this are Firefox and Winamp. On the other hand many programs are lightning fast like IE. It opens right away unlike Firefox which starting taking forever to open. The first thing I thought is that there might be a problem with my CPU or memory being maxed out, but when I watch my task manager they are both low so that isn't the problem. I have also ran CCleaner and Spybot S&D to make sure there isn't any problems there. I have 4gb of Vista ram and a pretty nice dual-core processor so it shouldn't be a problem with my hardware. Does anyone have any idea why certain programs/processes are taking a while to start? I am out of ideas.