LeeJend said:1) How long is long. App name and amount of seconds.
2) Have you defragmented your disk?
3) Is the disk a 7200 RPM
4) Is the disk capable of UDMA and the controller set to run UDMA?
5) Do you have your system and program files on a small seperate partition from your data or is everything on one huge partition?
5a) Check the spyware thing
5b) Are the program files on a seperate HD that needs to spin up when you load a new application?
6) Are you just getting too much caffiene maybe...