Launching Visio 2003 file via Powershell 3.0 is slow

Hello fellows,
I took one of the sample PS scripts from the Scripting Guy posts and adapted it to my needs. This script basically launches Visio 2003, and opens a new file that is based on a specified template with all required stencils. The problem is that when I launch
the PS script, the PS window opens and then there is a delay of ~10 seconds until Visio is launched. For some reason, the script execution is too slow. I've upgraded PS to version 3.0 but it did not help. I am using Win 7 Enterprise.
Any ideas how it is possible to speed up the PS script execution?
Here is the script:
$application = New-Object -ComObject Visio.Application
$application.visible = $true
$documents = $application.Documents
$document = $documents.Add("C:\Users\myname\Documents\My Shapes\Visio_Template.vst")
$pages = $application.ActiveDocument.Pages
$page = $pages.Item(1)
$document.SaveAs("C:\Users\myname\Test\Diagram.vsd")
Thank you in advance!

Com Interop with Office products is very slow. There is no solution for this. It can also be aggravated by issues with the Office installation.
If you have a lot of broken documents that have not been removed from the list they will also increase the load time.
10 seecods is not a very long time for the first instance to open.
The document you are opening will take time depending on ow many objects are defined and their complexity.
Visio is not very fast ever.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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