I've got a unique problem that even a fresh restart didn't fix. See when I open a new finder Window in my home directory it lags for a second, but if I access that same folder from another user's account it's nice and zippy. So it seems like something particular to that user but it stayed when I did a full system reinstall from scratch.
So things I've tried to fix it with.
Removed all .DS_store or whatever they're called files. Removed the background image I'd had, and reinstalled the OS. Any other recommendations?