Beachball. Appears sporadically and spins for anywhere from 2 minutes to 10 minutes or more. While it spins, I am locked out of proceeding. The beachball is multi-colored

Is anyone else experienceing this multicolored beachball spinning interminably and essentially preventing me from using the MAC? This has been happening sporadically for about 3 months. Any ideas appreciated! Allan

"the spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by the window server when an application cannot handle all of the events it receives. If an application does not respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the spinning wait cursor appears."
troubleshoot the spinning beach ball:http://www.macworld.com/article/151583/2010/05/spinningbeachballofdeath.html

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