Netbook with NIS 2009 loads IE woefully slow, 5 minutes, what can be done ?

New Dell Netbook

Intel Atom processor

Norton Internet Security  ver. 16.5.0.135

Boots up Windows Home nicely in 60 seconds and was fine up until installation as per my boss.

Click on Internet Explorer and I wait and wait up to 5 minutes to load.

Anyone with an idea what is going on and what I may try to get it to load faster?

TYAIA  (thank you all in adance for your help and input on this snafu)

John J