I have used Casper XP and more recently Casper 5 to copy my active system disk tomy identical backup disk. I have windows XP Pro.
Recently the Casper Explorer, which is like Disk Management  in Windows \Administrative Tools\Computer Management , opens very slowly, about 2 minutes 45 seconds compared with one second with the similar tool in Disk Management. However ins safe mode it opens immediately but of course then the copy is made at very slow speed.

I wonder whether there is a cure for this by setting an application path for Casper explorer? Help welcomed.