Try running it with your virus scanner off, and report back. My computer
has been slowing down to a crawl (I can't even access accuweather.com any
more) and I traced the problem to the AV software.

I have McAfee and I shut it down before I launched MS FS X. AAMOF, I
unloaded EVERTHING before I loaded the sim for the first time already
knowing I was under powered.

Kobra