[Ratspittle]

I recently bought a new hard drive so that I'd have back-up space on the old one. Also OS X (tiger) was getting slower by the day. I did an archive and install on the new drive and lo-and-behold, GUI responsiveness and opening apps was unbelievably faster!!! The next day, I installed all of the updates (java, ipod, security, etc.) and then repaired permissions. Guess what...I'm back at square one. Slow system responsiveness, loooong app opening times, flaky display (flat panel LCD). This sucks!!! I am considering re-installing tiger and not doing the software updates just to keep my system responsive. I do wonder though how necessary these security updates (and the likes) are. I do a lot of web page and graphic design work....I don't need to wait 10-20 seconds for dreamweaver, photoshop, fontbook, etc to open. Anyone have the same problem? Is there a workaround?

[JKT]

Are you sure that it isn't just Spotlight indexing the drive again?

[Ratspittle]

Only if spotlight takes over a week to index my computer and did not start indexing until day 2. And well over two months if you are talking about my old HD. Sorry, didn't mean to sound sarcastic, but this is truly a system-wide slowdown. A slowdown tht did not take effect until I ran the software updaters.
I kind of figured originally that the problem was due to me running multiple upgrades in OS X (had it since 10.0 and don't think I ever did a "clean install", always just upgraded.

edit: I did get 2 new computers since then so I guess that's not entirely true...now have a dual G4 1.25Ghz MDD