Clean Install and Archive has made no difference.

Question

I've posted recently about this but am still having big problems. My admin user account is very slow and keep getting the spinning beachball everytime I click on an application. When I login Safari opens automatically but to open anything else is painfully slow like there is a delay somewhere. My other user account works fine with no problems. I ran the Disk Utility from the CD and it stated the "HD appears to be ok" which is a good sign I believe. I then tried to reinstall the OS from the disk, it ran fine and I did an archive and install setting but when I restarted the computer I came to the normal login page again with the two users. I clicked the admin user and nothing has changed or improved. getting really t'd off with this now. Shouldn't I be geting a whole welcome and start up page if I have reinstalled the OS.Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If the computer's internal hard disk drive is or was overly full, the
system before and after the Archive & Install would be struggling.
If you did an 'archive and install' there would be no Startup Page
where your computer acts as if no previous owner personalized it;
an archive/install and update can give you a new system folder
and you can have that new system (during install, via option) put
your old user Admin and other account settings in it.
An actual archive of surplus files and seldom used images, songs
or other projects seldom visited, could be created off the computer
or a whole computer drive clone of all that could be made outside
the Mac, where it could be revisited via a bootup from that drive;
and keep the computer's drive more lean. Or, if replacement of an
original drive comes up, be sure to get a much larger capacity one.
And an older machine with some time on it, may be in need of a
new hard disk drive to be installed to replace a failing or weak one.
{Ideally, prior to the 'archive and install' procedure, if a machine is
still running OK and you have the means at hand and know-how,
to make a full drive content clone to a bootable external HDD.}
Having a backup, even on a good day, is one of the forms
of recommended preventative action akin to maintenance
and recovery procedures one can do at home. An invest-
ment in a suitable externally enclosed bootable hard disk
drive unit and experimentation with a clone utility such as
free-running Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper, is wise.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!