After installing the Yosemite upgrade the computer freezes when you click on something and the rainbow wheel pops up and takes forever to execute

computer freezes after installing Yosemite upgrade when you click on something the colored wheel pops up and takes forever to execute

Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down), select Disk Utility and repair both the disk permissions and the disk.  Reboot normally and check the performance. Any improvement?
Have you run any "cleaning" or "optimizing" apps on your Mac or install any antivirus software?  Download and run Etrecheck.  Copy and paste the results into your reply. It's a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC to help identify the more obvious culprits.

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