Apps very slow to open and work

My mac mini (i7, 4gb ram, 1TB HD, 700 Gb free) has become excruciatingly slow to load apps: the iWork or the MS office 2011 programs, the icon just keeps bouncing on the dock - I can literally go make coffee in the meantime; once opened, it still lags 5 minutes before I can begin working. Up to a few weeks ago, it was very snappy - opened as soon as I clicked on it and I could work in 2 seconds... but I haven't installed anything, have just kept the system tuned with updates and disc utilities... Any ideas? Thaks in advance for your help!

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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