For the past couple of weeks my NIS2009 has been locking up application launches for sometimes 5-10 minutes. I am running Vista Home Premium on a newer, very clean machine with Office 2007. I had Spybot and Adware loaded, but they have been removed. I was on line with a couple of Norton analysts for about 6 hours. They tried resetting all settings, reloaded NIS2009, and finally removed and installed NIS2008. Nothing worked. When I launch PowerPoint for instance, it can take up to 10 minutes. If I turned off the Antivirus and Advanced Protection in NIS, the program launches in about a second. Restarts are now taking upwards to 20 minutes. OPening a new tab in IE7 can take up to 5 minutes. Does anyone have a clue what the problem could be?