Save as dialog very slow to apear

Since 1 week I have this annoying problem: in a lot of (every?) applications (word, excel, textedit, etc) the save as... dialog takes a long time to appear. Sometimes up to a minute. I have no idea why this happens.
I don't have any network shares. I do have Back to my mac enabled.
Any suggestions? thanks!

It may be LaunchServices. These are only cache files but can often get corrupted.
Launch /Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this at the command line to rebuild LaunchServices:
Code:
<pre class="alt2" style="margin:0px; padding:3px; border:1px inset; width:640px; height:34px; overflow:auto">/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user</pre>
Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know
-mj

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