Well, if I recall correctly, when you install SoftIce, it does some funky voodoo shyte, and when you reboot, your not running SoftIce on Windows, your running Windows on SoftIce... This is what allows the debugging to be so damn tasty.... its intercepting pretty much everything...

If you uninstall SoftIce, your system should speed back up again....

But I could just be imagining things again...