Icons slow to open

my icons on my macbook pro just sit and bounce for about 20 times before they open
especially safari........any ideas guys

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I have CS3. In windows explorer, when I right click on a graphics file such as a .pdf, it now takes a long time to open. Because Adobe prepares a snapshot of that image. But all I really want to do is to rename the file, I don't need to see the image. IS there a way to tell Adobe to stop this?
Thanks
Steve

That is not normal. A complete reinstall may be the best approach. This is what should happen when right clicking in Explorer:

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Im just checking to see if anyone else has had problems with the latest version of iTunes 9.0.1 being slow to open. When I click on the iTunes icon, it opens quick but then the main window freezes, then I see the beach ball spinning for about 30 seconds or so then the rest of the screen "comes alive" and then I can access the entire application.
It was never this way prior to version 9. I DID download the update that was supposed to solve these issues but I have not seen any difference in performance.

You might want to check that your certificate that you made has been applied to iTunes.app
try this code in Terminal"
codesign -dvvvv /Application/iTunes.app
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Since installing OS X 10.8.2 Safari is very slow to open sites

Since installing OS X 10.8.2 Safari is very slow to open sites

Do you get a notice that Safari has quit unexpectedly? If so, please do the following.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
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Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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Hello
My iTunes has suddenly become noticeably slower to open. This is when opening it for the first after starting the computer from cold. It used to really zip to open. Now, the icon animates, but the window is slow to appear. I haven't added any new music to it, so it's a bit odd.
Once open for the first time, with the ram loaded, Tunes can be closed and then when opened again, it zips open. Odd.
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Thanks!
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Same thing here, I start iTunes and it takes forever
to start, no window no nothing, then a few minutes
later its up and running. Then when I quit the window
goes away but the dock icon still has its arrow and
it shows up in the "Force Quit Application" window as
"Not Responding" and no matter how many times I force
it to quit it is still there. No window just the dock
icon still has its arrow and it shows up in the
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tried downloading iTunes 6.5 but it will not
install.
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Long time since we last corresponded.
Thanks for the link to a description of my laptop's specifications.
Thanks also for the link to updates for my computer. Remember this discussion from just about a year ago?
I upgraded to Windows 8.1 by following the directions in the article you posted.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I already tried unchecking things from the System Configuration Utility. I actually used Autoruns, which is more comprehensive. No change.
For the record, I long ago got rid of virtually everything that Toshiba put into Windows startup. Now, only three items run at Windows startup:
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3. the Realtek sound driver, without which I'm stuck with Windows' own driver.
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