I like to have the Desktop Toolbar visible on the Taskbar because it gives me quick access to the desktop icons without having to move windows. The toolbar I'm referring to is what you get when you right-click on the Taskbar and choose Toolbars -> Desktop

Recently, it suddenly got very slow to load. Normally, when I clicked on it, it would immediately pop up a list of the desktop icons and I could choose which program I wanted to launch. Now when I click on it, the frame pops up but it takes ~ 15 seconds for any of the icons to load. That makes it essentially useless because it's easier and faster then to just find another way to launch the program.

I can't figure out why this happened. It's my work computer, so I haven't installed any software that started this, but our IT dept is often pushing updates, etc. But I have a second machine that doesn't experience this - the Desktop toolbar pops up right away.

I've tried removing and readding it but no luck. Anyone have other ideas?

P.S. This is a Dell Precision 390 running XP Pro SP2