Lots of Dock bouncing, slow launches

[Chris Foote]

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>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:17:15 -0800
>Subject: [X Newbies]
>From: Steve St-Laurent <st-laur at telus.net>
>Message-Id: <10384FC7-0B9A-11D7-BD31-0003937E3274 at telus.net>
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>All of a sudden programs are bouncing a lot in the Dock, i.e. taking a
>l-o-n-g time to load. I've run Repair Permissions and fsck-ed and
>everything seems OK. Any ideas here? [Previously happy 10.2.2]
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>Steve St-Laurent <st-laur at holecomm.ca> <http://www.holecomm.ca>
>Hole-in-the-Wall Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Are you using a an HP all in one printer? There is a know issue with 
the  drivers slowing everything down.
Open to the terminal and type "top" to see what's hogging the processor.
Chris
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