Slow imac with osx mavericks and other problems

I have a late 2012 imac, after uprgrading to mavericks it is jerky, laggy, not very smooth, my internet is up and down, and many things in system preferences are not working even tough im an administrator. For example i want to reeboot from macintosh start disk and it after i click it nothing happens, or I attempted to run a command and it says i need to be root, but I am? i went to login option in my user, but same thing, when i click it nothing happens.
How can i fix this?
also is there an app to see if any apps of mine are incompatible now?
ANy way to optimize my mac for most speed? my doc is back to 3d and wont go 2d anymore also.

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