Danny,
You should obtain a copy of "Onyx" and run the the option that looks like a
Hammer.
This application cleans up almost all problems that are OS related.
Cheers
Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Friday, September 7, 2012 7:57:17 PM UTC-7, DannyDunn wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> On and off, our main iMac has been working extremely slowly. It will
> take an eternity to start up into Mac OS X, then after logon it MAY or
> may not work fine. However, most of the time on logon, and nearly all
> of the time after a good working half hour of light use (Internet,
> Mail, Finder, etc.), the computer will start operating at a CRAWL. By
> this I mean constant beachball spinning, no response in either your
> active program, or the dock, or the menus. The apple menu does not
> open when clicked. There are only two things to do when this situation
> arises - wait until the computer responds again, which can be anywhere
> from 4 minutes to many hours (not kidding!) or force power off the
> computer. Then you have to wait and wait and wait for the long startup
> time, and hope that you can finish what you need to do before
> something acts up again and the system is frozen. The system has
> become so unusable, I have set up a ten year old Windows XP computer
> for use, and it works much faster and properly compared to the iMac.
> So obviously something is wrong here.
>
> I can trigger a less extreme version of this by opening the Spotlight
> icon on the menu bar, after clicking the icon, the computer will
> beachball, all open apps and the dock will not respond, but this only
> lasts about 2 or 3 minutes, after which you can search or exit out,
> and it continues working. Many times I have thoughtlessly entered a
> search, thinking it would be faster than manually browsing for it on
> the disk, then in dismay see my system freeze up.
>
> The system is an iMac Core 2 Duo Penryn (April 2008), with 3 GB of RAM
> installed, a 320 GB Apple hard disk that came with the system, and OS
> X 10.5.8 with all the latest updates. I have used disk utility on a OS
> X DVD to do a full check of the disk system for errors, and it came
> back clean. I ran AppleJack with all of the repairs, but that didn't
> make a difference. I do think the problem is storage related, because
> I ran the startup in verbose mode, and I kept seeing messages about I/
> O delay errors flashing by on the screen. However, I don't know how to
> properly troubleshoot this or narrow it down.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks all,
> Dan
>
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