Pavilion a820n Slow Response

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My 6 month old HP Pavilion with Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor is very slow in
opening new applications. When I click on an icon on the desktop, start
menu, control panel, etc. there is nearly always a 10 second (sometimes
more) lag before the application opens. This is not new; it has always been
that way. When I first got it, I complained to HP support, but they
couldn't do anything, and even went so far on one occasion to tell me that a
10 second delay was normal. It surely isn't on my laptop (1 GHz or my
former computer). I don't have a lot of things in the start up program that
might cause this. And there is no lag when I use the keyboard program keys
to open an application such as Outlook Express or IE. It's only when I use
the mouse. I even tried a different mouse with USB connection. Nothing
seems to work. I'm not sure whether this is a hardware, software, or maybe
even a mouse problem, but it certainly is annoying! Anyone have any
suggestions about what I might do to fix this?