Not really. I click on Skype and it's three seconds until all contacts appear, and those seconds can be blamed on the network. The only thing that loads slowly

Not really. I click on Skype and it's three seconds until all contacts appear, and those seconds can be blamed on the network. The only thing that loads slowly is Chrome with my 50 open tabs, and I don't think it's the fault of the OS. In the same hardware what you describe actually happens every time with Windows 7 (I can't upgrade the Windows version, corporate policy) and it's a really annoying process.