Slow response switching programs

Should I be buying antivirus software, if so which one is best?
I am used to having these programs open at all times, mail, firefox, preview, word and address book. On my old laptop, I also had both yahoo and msn messenger running. I find that clicking between programs, especially with firefox running, it really is very slow. I really expected my new laptop to be snappy, and it has been disappointing. Any suggestions?

How much RAM do you have?
Word is probably the cause of the slowdown, actually. Running in Rosetta takes up an enormous amount of CPU. If Firefox also has a lot of extension, its possible that its hogging RAM. I wouldn't look at an antivirus just yet (some of them used to, at least, just checked the machine for windows viruses that it might be carrying).

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Hans Wessels
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Hello,
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc448a7
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I have trouble with my nokia n70 music edition. After loading songs into my phone, it started to have slower response especially when I'm opening the Gallery. It took about 16 seconds before I opened my Gallery. My songs are on my memory card and if I remove it, it only takes about 10 seconds before I opened the Gallery. How can I get faster response on my phone when opening programs like the gallery? Please I need help

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Hi,
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'FULL','מיוחס במלואו',
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I am assuming that the reason for the slow response is the constant run of the function in addition to the decode (which I was once told also slows the response a bit).
Is there anyway to change the sql somewhat? Without using the parameter the report takes about 2 1/2 minutes to run. Using the parameter it takes around 25 minutes to run.
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Edited by: user476771 on May 10, 2010 2:09 AM

Hi Michael,
I think your suggestion #3, checking the indexes, is an excellent start.
As to the other suggestions, I believe that everything passed to the function is needed to find the status.
We seem to have serious problems running materialized views. Our dba is actually checking it out now. One group of mv were changed a few months ago so that they are no longer needed (someone worked around it using other tables for the data). Another mv is problematic even though it takes 14 minutes to create in a tst environment (which I happen to do yesterday) and causes no problems afterwards, it is a problem when run in prod as part of a job. As I mentioned, our dba is checking it out.
I hesitate to create a new table that is updated every night with the status of each invoice. It won't be up-to-date during the day, and it means changing the report that has otherwise run smoothly until now. The user avoids using the one parameter as much as possible so it's not THAT bad...
I really appreciate your giving the four suggestions.
Thank you so much.
Leah

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