Mountain lion has really slowed my whole system down

Since I upgraded to Mountain lion my entire system has become super slow.. it's making me feel like I made a big mistake updating.. I've got a 500G hard drive a 2GHz Intel core duo and 2GB 1067 Mhz ddr3 memory.. any ideaS?
Thanks!!

Increase the amount of Ram in your machine, 4G minimum, more is better.

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follow the "Ratatapa's" instructions.
1/ boot on Recovery part (command R)
2/ find "terminal" in disk utilities
and write "resetpassword" for root. Enter a new password for the root user.
3/ reboot as root user (or when your are login, log out and typing to open a other user "root")
in the "system pref" panel, open "users and groups" and then create new user with the same name, same password.. normally it must be asking you about "You are already an account with the same name" say yes. And it's done.
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about "root user", see also :
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528
your welcome
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