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Significant Delay between clicking program icon and it opening?

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Polish3d

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Since yesterday, for some reason, every time I click on any program icon, including IE, it takes roughly 30-50 seconds for it to open. I've tried restarting my PC a number of times, defragging, etc

I'm running an e6600 w/ 2 gigs of ram and raptor HDDs

Any ideas on a cause and a fix?
 
Thanks. I downloaded Microsoft's anti-Malware program which predictably found nothing, but then I downloaded another program called Malwarebyte's anti-Malware and it found 2 instances which I removed.

The problem hasn't been fixed yet though. It's kind of strange. For the first few minutes after a restart, programs seem to open at proper speed. Then about 2 minutes in, things start taking 30-50 seconds to come up after I click on the icon
 
Yes, both in safe mode and regular. Everything found (there were 3 total) has been deleted, but the problem remains. It's really strange. No matter what programs I have running, whether 1 instance of IE or 5, everything runs smoothly until roughly 1-2 minutes after restart, and then it begins to bog down, taking around 50 seconds to load any program
 
A problem like that is usuall software-related, either a badly misbehaving program or malware. Just to make sure it's not hardware, though, check the System Event Log and look for NTFS or Disk errors.
 
Any ideas on finding the responsible culprit? I've reinstalled IE, my video drivers, etc... I'd like to avoid a reformat if possible, but if I don't fix it I'll have to

The problem is there whether I'm running IE or something else, and no IE
 
What about killing any startup processes that might be sucking up cpu cycles? Did anything change that might have caused this?
 
That's what I've been trying to figure out. Another virus scanner program found another trojan and presumably removed it. I removed all startup programs using msconfig, and canceled all non-MS services

The strange thing is that everything runs briskly for about one minute upon startup, and then it begins to bog
 
Ok, looks like I fixed it. Credit goes to avast! anti-virus trial which found and deleted a malware prog. This was the third anti-virus program I used, and I have to note that Microsoft's anti-malware program (which I used first) declared my system free of any malware/virus'
 
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