Zone Alarm 4.5 is on the list of applications that have problems wirh SP 2.
Upgrade to v5.1 snip

I`ll check that out thanks

Did you defragment your hard disk after installing SP 2?

Not yet, but it isn`t simply fragmentation causing the delays - i`m
talking about a delay of 10-20 seconds for IE to start up, and similar
slow responses for other apps.

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