Brand New DeskTop too slow

Bought a brand new Pavilion (even though the Wal Mart employee advised against it) and I've had nightmares ever since. HP and Norton have decided this is not my computer but theirs. Amazing at how hard it is to work with this without some sort of warning or prompt. Exactly what the WM worker told me. The spyware that HP and Norton uses on customers is scary. This computer supposedly has all sorts of potential but I have had nothing but problems. I hook up my old Dell and it's so fast compared to this. Pages won't load or they take forever. There's a little yellow window at the bottom of the screen that constantly needs monitoring. Almost every time you try to do something you can't because that little window needs to be checked. Then, nothing. I have shut down the web, re-booted so many times. What's involved in returning it so I can change brands?

What is the Model of the System? And what Version of Windows is it running?
HP Elite h8-1070T Intel Core i7 2600 12GB RAM AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB Windows 8 Professional 64-bit (Gaming)
HP DC7900CMT Intel Core 2 Duo 3Ghz 4GB RAM Windows 8 Professional 64-bit (Workstation)
HP XW4200 Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.6GHz 4GB RAM Windows XP Professional (Home File Server)

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Have a look here...
macworld.com/mac-troubleshooting-what-to-do-when-your -computer-is-too-slow.
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...... anti-virus. ..
In General 3rd Party AV Software is Not Required as Mac OS X tends to look after itself.
Read Here > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4545776?tstart=0
See Here > Antivirus Discussion
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If necessary.. Contact AppleCare.
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Using Photoshop alone needs oodles of CPU, GPU, RAM and HD space for scratch disks.
If you are a seasoned Photoshop/Adobe user, you should already know this fact!
ArchiCad is another, CPU, GPU and RAM heavy app.
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I have a 2009 27 inch iMac with 16 GBs of RAM running CAD and Adobe CS 3 and Blender 3D and other processor intensive apps with very little issues.
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Ditch it and purchase either the old RF style Mac compatible wireless laser mice or purchase a wired mouse.
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