[dosequis09]

I did some quick research and did not find this topic discussed, but I am not positive. Anyway, sometimes when I wake my MB pro up by opening it the mouse seems very slow and at times unresponsive. I thought that was the only problem, but now I am noticing that the whole computer is slow. Switching between spaces (in leopard) and even typing this post was slow? Is this a common problem? Is it fixable? The only thing that seems to fix it is a restart.

[Cold Warrior]

What sort of third-party drivers or software do you have installed? This sounds like some errant process running in the background, which, over time, spools out of control.

Anything by Norton or Logitech?

[dosequis09]

All I have is adobe software (photoshop, illustrator, etc.), some widgets (I heard that iStat might be the problem so I deleted it and have not yet concluded that it was the cause), but nothing really runs in the background. And it has been happening almost since I got the computer back in December. I use firefox for internet then some shareware like appzapper and iSquint. Hope this helps.

[Cold Warrior]

Open up Activity Monitor and sort descending by the CPU column (so that the highest CPU numbers are at the top). Keep this up before a sleep, that way you can see the activity after it wakes up. You may be able to spot a process or two that jumps in CPU usage.

Make sure you have 'All Processes' selected from the toolbar, not just 'My Processes'.