I am running Joomla 2.5 on WAMP on my local quad core PC (i72630QM 16GB RAM) W7 64 Just bringing up the empty home page on this new joomla install: DNS Lookup: 1ms Sending: 1ms Waiting: 4.14s Receiving: 5ms Size/content: <50k Joomla debug profile information shows it takes less than 500ms to render the page. What could be causing the latency?? Have spent days trying to figure out what the bottleneck is and would appreciate your help... Thanks-- Sam PS - disabling MSE antivirus makes no difference