Leopard slowed down performance on my G5

Not sure how to fix this, need some basic advice. I just loaded Leopard into my Power PC G5 and it's moving through applications, etc like molasses in January. Do I need to upgrade anything?

Hi! A couple of things may be slowing it down. One is spotlight which may be indexing drives and also Time Machine which takes a few hours for the initial backup. There could also be some temp files created that haven't cleared themselves. I usually recommend letting it run for at least 24 hours without sleeping to give it time to catch its breath. You could also have some apps that aren't Leopard compliant but those should have been checked for compatibility before loading Leopard. Usually though incompatible apps produce worse results than just a general slowdown. Tom

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