> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:36:26PM +0530, Muruganandam wrote: > > No sir, > > This is for system speed.applications are opened very slowly. > If they are just _opening_ slowly but running fine after that, it could be that you have an unmounted file system in your path or open at a shell. For example, if you mounted a cdrom, cd'd to it and then unmounted it from a different shell...you'd have the unmounted drive still at your original shell. This can cause a delay when starting programs. Note that it could be an NFS or SAMBA share, not just a cdrom.