In my opinion, however photo editor 4 (PE4) shall by no means have anything to do with the routers whose main job is to forward, filter, partition and administer network traffics. Photo editor 4 does require internet connection to our application server for updates & etc., but like other ACDSee products, it just uses standard http(80) and https ports (8080, 443).

I would suggest the following to help us identify the root of the problem :

1) Install photo editor 4 on your XP machine and see how the router and your internet connection behave.
2) On your laptop, test the https connection (your bank's website, etc..) and see if the speed is normal. Note https connections generally are little bit slower than non-encrypted HTTP ones.
3) Install photo editor 4 again on your Vista laptop ( with one license, you can install additional copy on a laptop) and test the internet connection. Before re-installation, please remove PE4's settings folder and application folder according to KB article 2824. Note since you have already uninstall-ed PE4, you can skip the step 1.
 

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