Snow Leopard slowing system

After installing Snow Leopard in my MacBook Pro I noticed many of my applications are slow, including Safari. Furthermore, I had the issue in iTunes with the iTunes store access. Still is not fixed. Sometimes my system just hangs and I need to Force to quit the applications for not responding, especially Safari. I noticed that Safari is hanging with no response many times after installation of Leopard. I downloaded the latest upgrades from the Apple Support help page, but the issue is still there. The Response when the system is booting is slow as well. In addition, I use Parallel software to run Windows applications and is very slow after the upgrade. (previously was stable and working properly). Is anybody has an idea how to fix this issue?

I'm having the same problem after upgrading my iMac to Snow Leopard. At first I thought it was caused by lack of memory after noticing in the Activity Monitor that I had left only about 28MB of RAM left (Leopard 10.5 used less than 1GB most of the time). I installed two Crucial 2GB DD3 1066Mhz memory modules and the sluggishness resolved moderately. Also noticed that Snow Leopard now consumes a lot more memory after upgrading to 4Gbs. The Activity Monitor now shows that it is consuming more than 2Gbs of memory. Well at least there's a bit more than 1GB available. I ran Disk Utilities and Tech Tool Deluxe and everything seems to be fine.
What irony, I switched from Windows to OS X because I was sick and tired of dealing with problems after each upgrade and now am having problems with my iMac after upgrading it or I should say... degrading it. I feel I should do a clean install but then it will be a nightmare having to install everything back. I guess I have to wait until someone comes up with a solution.

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It may not have been considered a "Major Release," But when the it's the only OS that the machines you are currently building will run, it's pretty freakin' major!
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