IMac - freezes or pauses intermittantly - usually for 2 or 3 seconds no matter what program is running - sometimes just touching a menu to get a drop down will take several seconds

my iMac freezes or pauses intermittantly - usually for 2 or 3 seconds - no matter what program is running - sometimes just touching a menu to get a drop down will take several seconds - if playing music on iTunes or Spotify the music will pause for several seconds - it is not internet related because it happens when working off line - its become a major annoyance in using the compuetr - really slows it down - any suggestions?

Run the Extented Apple Hardware Test from the original system disc that came with your iMac, as per > Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test

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Roberto 17 wrote:
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[svn] 1384: Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is us

Revision: 1384
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-04-24 07:54:58 -0700 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008)
Log Message:
Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is used.
Also improving [Embed] so that it can recognize .TTC files as assets (previously these were only recognized through CSS @font-face rules).
QE: Yes, please add a test case for using [Embed] to embed fonts from a TTC file in addition to our tests for @font-face. Note that the AFEFontManager must be configured for this scenario.
Doc: No
Checkintests: Pass
Mxunit: AtEmbed Font suite: Pass
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/AbstractTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/FontTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/util/MimeMappings.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/PreLink.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/CachedFontManager.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/Dictionary.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/MovieEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagDecoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagHandler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagValues.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/builder/tags/FontBuilder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontAlignZones.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontInfo.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java
Added Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/DefineFont3Face.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont1.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont2.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont3.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont4.java
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/DefineFontFace.java

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