Odd app delays

I have 2 apps that have a delay before launching: Snapz Prox 2.2.0 (SP) and Now Up To Date's: QuickContact (QC). SP is launched when I boot and is for screen shots and QC is a menu item in the upper right corner that accesses NUTD's contact database.
When I launch SP via the assigned keys, I hear the it's launch sound immediately, but then the window you get to choose whether you want to take a screen shot or record a screen movie takes about 5-10 seconds to appear. After this first time and delay, when launched I get the sound and window instantly, until next time I boot up.
I have the same one-time delay with QC. When I select the icon in the upper right window, I get the beachball for around 5-10 seconds and then I get the QC search window to search the database. After this first time and delay, QC launches instantly as expected until next time I start up my Mac.
Not the end of the world. Just a tad frustrating and odd since I have a pretty fast computer, lots of RAM. I'm running the latest versions of both apps. SP techsupport has had a couple complaints, but not enough to allocate the resources to find and fix it. Don't blame them, actually.
Since it happens with 2 apps, I'm wondering if it is a system issue and if there is a fix that some one may here may know of.
Thanks,
Steven

Knowing what the app's icon looked like isn't particularly helpful. What was it named?
If a strange app has appeared on your iOS device, someone may have hacked your Apple ID and used it to download that app. This could, depending on your device's settings, cause that app to be automatically downloaded on your device. Note that it doesn't matter if the app is free... often, hackers will download a free app so that they can extract purchase data from the free app and embed it into a more expensive app in order to steal it... without associating their own Apple ID with the pirated app.
Check your purchase history. On an iPhone, go to App Store -> Updates -> Purchased. On an iPad, go to App Store -> Purchased. By default, apps will be listed in order of purchase, with the most recently purchased sorted at the top. If you see apps on this list that you know you did not download, and that nobody with access to your Apple ID downloaded, then this is confirmation that your Apple ID has been hacked.
In the event that you have been hacked, you will need to immediately log in to appleid.apple.com and change your Apple ID password. While you are there, you should also enable two-factor authentication on your Apple ID, to prevent hackers from taking control of it, and potentially locking you out of your iOS devices permanently.

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