Welcome to the forum.
I will start with a THANK'S!
I have wondered are tried to figure out why I had a delay when trying to open a folder... now I know...

I uninstalled VE and the delay was gone!
I haven't even thought it was VE that did this...
I can't say that I had the same issue with Control panel, but I'm not sure...
The folders had a 3 second delay before even starting to open a folder...
That was without VE service running.
Comodo should take a look at this.