Thanks guys. I'll try a defrag, though I usually only use the laptop on vacation, so it doesn't get a lot of use. As long as there's a reason for it!

I'm running AACW on a laptop and when I first played the tutorials a year or so ago it ran fine. Recently I decided to get back into it, applied the latest patch and now from the time I click the icon to the time I get to the main menu, it takes an extremely long time. It's "Loading Textures", "Load...