CAN I STOP THE RAINBOW SPINNING DISK AND THE DELAYS

can I clean the spinning rainbow disk

Before you do anything, backup your computer. Time Machine is easiest and works great. I will wait...
Ok, all backed up? Great, let's go!
First, try restarting your computer. Don't put it to sleep and wake it up, actually restart it by select "Restart..." off the Apple menu.
Still slow? Then bring up "Activity Monitor" (via Spotlight if you don't know where it is.) Select the "CPU" tab and click on the "%CPU" column to get it to sort highest to lowest. Is anything running taking up loads of CPU time? If so, that is most likely the culprit. If not...
Shutdown your computer. Restart and after you here the tone, hold down the "shift" key. Release it once you see the spinning gear or the progress bar. This boots you into safe mode and performs a disk check. This insures that the HFS+ file system has no issues which could cause slowdowns or other, nastier, issues.
Reboot your machine in the usual fashion to see if this fixed your issue.
Still slow? Perhaps you no longer have enough memory (RAM) for the tasks you are trying to accomplish.
Good luck!

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