Hi Whiteman.
Did you try the suggestion of disabling your anti-virus?
Or putting Podium in your ‘exclude’ option of your anti-virus?
At least try this to start the process of elimination to find out what it
may be. Saving or closing should not take that long, obviously.
What anti-virus are you running?
What other programs or processes are running at the same time
this problem occurs with Podium?
(hint: open Task Manager and have a look there)