Captivate created file playing with time delay

I have an issue with some machines in the Company where Adobe Captivate files are not playing as created via Flash Player ie where a slide should move onto another slide after a 3 seconds interval , this interval takes over 15 seconds.
I am not getting any error messages and the files play as required but with the serious time delay between slides.
The files created from Captivate are exe files.
The strange thing is that this issue only occurs in some machines in the Company and I am unable to determine a pattern as to this issue.
I have updated the Codec driver and the Graphic drivers on the affected machine but did not solve the issue.
I have tested an affected file on 2 of the same model machines (HP Desktop machines) both running Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Flash Player 10.3 and IE8.0 .
The file played successfully on one of the machines but on the other machine there was a 10 second time lag between slides.
I have checked Task Manager and the process is only using 2-3% of the CPU so the machine has enough CPU to run the file .
I updated to Flash 11.1 on one of the machines and IE 9 but still encountered the same issue.
I have disabled the Anti Virus software (McAfee) while testing on one of the affected machines and this did not solve the issue.
All Machines have the latest approved Microsoft updates installed as required.
The files are created using Adobe Captivate 3 and are stored locally on the affected machines
The files created were created in captivate with a standard 30 fps option
Can you please advise on this issue

Welcome to our community
As I understand things, when you launch an EXE file created by Captivate, it decompresses and temporarily installs a runtime version of the Flash Player. So I'm wondering if perhaps on these machines where the delay is occurring, if it would help to perform the following steps:
1. Clear all temporary files
2. Perform a defragmentation of the hard drive
I'd try step one first and see if anything improves. Perhaps that's all that is needed. The second step is simply a good habit to get into.
Cheers... Rick
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