I have used AVG and F-Secure on my desktop and laptop for the last few years, and after switching both over to Avast a few months ago, I've noticed that programs take a lot longer to load than they did before. This happens for web browsers, MS Office programs, pretty much anything that I try to run. I can see the A-ball in the system tray spinning, so I'm assuming that it is scanning the program to see if it is malware or not. This is a good idea in theory, but I'm wondering if there isn't a more efficient way to do this, as this never seemed to be a problem before. I'm assumign that these other av programs either didn't scan these other programs, or did it much more quickly. Is there something I can safely do, to mimimize the startup time--please note that I am not talking about Windows startup, but the startup of pretty much any program on the computer. I'm noticing it on both, so I don't think its just one setting on one computer that is causing this.