I just reinstalled all my laptops software including windows. When I tried to Launch Swtor; the launcher took painfully long to get rolling – upwards of 5 minutes! I looked around and found a youtube article talking about it.

To fix the issue of the launcher taking forever to load up after you click on it to load, I have a fix for you. Open up internet explorer and click on tools. At the very bottom of the popup list, click Internet Options. Click on the Connections tab and then click on LAN Settings. Make sure to uncheck all the boxes. Click OK on all the windows to make sure it saves everything. Close off IE and then load up your launcher again. It loads within a few seconds now, compared to taking 5-10 minutes as before.

I take no credit for this fix, as I discovered it from someone on youtube.

Credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7dW6TAXsFo