[Solved] Notepad takes ages to open - Windows 7

The problem should be related to the SSD drive, however here the solution.

Find the notepad shortcut in the start menu (search for notepad or maybe it is already listed in the most used/favourties)


 






Change the value of "start in" from %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%  to %windir%\system32\notepad.exe




Now the problem is solved

Thanks to the user vaypay from http://superuser.com/