After installing update for mavericks 10.9.3 my mac responds slowly, freezes and crashes, what can I do?

Istarted haveing these problems before but thought that something was wrong with my hard drive, everything checks out, I started having these problems when I upgraded to OS X Mavericks. nothing has worked right ever since that time, it's driving me crazy, maybe I should go back to windows, I hate that ideal!
If some one has any helpful suggestions out there please fell free to let me know what that is. thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
frustrated.

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