Jerky animations when minimizing/maximizing?

[reubs]

Just recently I've noticed that my windows will have a jerky animation when I am minimizing to/maximizing from the dock. I can't really figure out what causes this, but restarting usually fixes this...however, restarting is just kind of a pain sometimes.

I'm running a 1.83 Ghz Macbook w/ 2 gigs of RAM. I've currently got 939 "inactive" MB of ram and 343 MB of "free" ram. 233 MB is "wired" (whatever that means) and 512 MB is active. Only 64 MB is being used for graphics.

Any info or help would be appreciated...or is this just something that happens when the system has been running for a little while w/o a restart?

Thanks.

 

[NickElls]

Hmm... I think the Front Row animations get slow if Photo Booth is open.

 

[reubs]

I never run photo booth or front row. I use this for word processing, iTunes, and web surfing. Nothing too RAM or processor intensive, I don't think.