I only work on documents on my hard drive. I only tried opening one

that I had backed up to a disc to see if it would open faster.

I can try uninstalling and reinstalling my Stedman's electronic references. These are the same ones had installed before I reformatted my hard drive a few weeks ago, and they didn't seem to cause a slowdown before. Would it be best if this time I do not have the buttons put on my toolbar?