Anyway to fix freezing of 10.6.8 without Spending money?

I called Apple support but their answer was not useful. I am experiencing problems with my iMac freezing during gaming and during regular use., I barely have any files on this computer as i have another laptop with files on it. Many people say i need to upgrade to OSX Lion but I don't want to spend any money. Any useful links or tips would be appreciated. There is also something called Safe Boot which takes ages. Any ideas how to switch that function off?

Well, if you can't spend any extra money, there isn't much you can do.
You still didn't give me the year and CPU model of your iMac.
I suspect that one of the main reasons is that you simply do not have enough RAM installed.
Every newer version of OS X has demanded more CPU, GPU and RAM power.
4 GBs is really the "working" minimum amount of RAM just for the main OS X operating system only.
Adding extra RAM is really needed for running other applications smoothly from within OS X.
If you are gaming, then more CPU, GPU and RAM are, usually, needed.
You can't change the CPU or GPU in iMacs, so the only thing you can address is installing more RAM.
Without knowing your specific age and model iMac, it's hard to advise how much more RAM could be installed to help improve your iMac's performance.
2006 models could only take 4 GBs of RAM. 2007 to 2008 models can take up to 6 GBs of RAM.
2009 models can take either up to 8 or 16 GBs of RAM and 2010 models and up, all can take 16 GBs of RAM and some later models could take up to 32 GBs of RAM.
Also, other things to check. Make sure there are no apps running in the background from login.
Check your iMacs login items to see if there are any apps launching at login that aren't really needed.
Make sure you have no applications waiting in the background ( multitasking) as items launched and just running idle in the background can eat up CPU cycles.

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