Your situation sounds simlar to what I was seeing on my machine at home.
One of Michael suggestions (in the thread linked by Christian Altenbach) was to defrag the hard drive.
I have to try this out to see if it helps for my machine. I do know that at about the time I was loading up LV8 on my machine, I was getting pretty low on disk space. This (in my mind eye) lends credability to that theory in that it is very likely my LV8 files are fragmented.
The suggestion to shutdown my virus checking durring LV8 load times is alos a good suggestions that I can try at home but not here at work.
Composing this reply inspired another thought. How is our disk space?
The following may be old news to some and new to others.
When I see a Windows type application taking a long time to do something but at the same time the CPU is NOT at 100% then I have to suspect an I/O of some type is taking place and the process is probably in an "IO_Wait" state (Note: My terminology may be wrong for Windows. The last time I chaced OS internals it was VMS).
Three likely type of I/O waits that I would suspect are;
1) Waiting for the file to be read
2) Waiting for virtual memory to be allocated (still disk I/O but initiated by the OS)
3) Network I/O
Last first. I unplugged my network cable and it did not make a difference.
The other two items can be tracked by using the Task manager and adding more statistics to the views. Page Faults, etc.
Now for my own sake (I do not know if it helps you) but I seem to remember in one of those virus-check/ Anti-Spyware things giving me the option NOT to check this in specific folders. I may try that as well.
So I realize that none of what I have said here helps you right now. I also suspect it will take me weeks to fully investigate all of these possibilities.
The only other thing I can say at this time is "If I fugure this out, I will let you know!".
If you happen to find something that works for you, please share.
Your fellow wire-worker,
Ben
