Our application uses the “System.Data.OracleClient” library to connect to our Oracle database.  Something like this: OracleConnection connection = new OracleConnection( "Data Source=prod8a;User Id=bugnav;Password=bugnav"); DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now; connection.Open(); Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now - startTime); Normally code like this would connect to Oracle in WELL under one second.  However, under Vista, the first time I run this it takes ...