Win 7 start menu freezes after reboot (W520 + SSD)

I have day old W520, and the first thing I did was to put an Intel SSD (520) as the internal and mounted the pre-installed 500GB disk in the optical drive bay.
I then did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, reinstalled drivers, all Windows updates etc.
Generally the system runs fine, but I have this very odd thing. After booting the system, the first time I click on the start menu button ie bottom left Windows icon, I get the spinning wheel and explorer hangs for around a minute. Once it comes back to life, everything is fine again, at least until I next reboot.
Most mysterious. I've tried all the obvious things like SSD firmware. It doesn't seem tied to startup speed ie if I let the system idle for ages before clicking on the start menu it still happens.
If I hit ctrl-alt-del and look in the tak manager nothing is sucking cpu. The event viewer shows nothing (except and explorer crash if I chose to kill it).
Has anyone ever seen something like this?
Cheers
Nick

When I first saw this I just installed Win 7, and started installing the drivers from the backup directory for network so I could run System Update. On launching System Update I saw everything freeze for a minute, and then it got going again.
Now I have VS2008, VS2010 and Photoshop and Illustrator as I need to start getting some work done, but the problem persists. I've been running Process Monitor, looking at services which are starting late, but am not seeing anything obviously wrong.
It's worth saying it doesn't appear to be just a start menu thing - it is anything to do with the bottom bar, and probably explorer as a whole.
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