Computer beginning to slow down, seeing the little rainbow curser more and

Hi,
I'm seeing that little rainbow curser more and more and the computer is slowing down when shifting between programs where it didn't before. For example, when I jump from Excel to Safari there's a lag where there never used to be. I have plenty of memory both internally and externally. What can I do? I've already ran the Disk Utility.
Thanks,

SirWalterScott wrote:
A friend... also said to put all the random files I had on the desktop in a folder.
A note of caution there... the Desktop is not an infinite storage bin. If you keep a lot of files especially music, video you can "choke" the Desktop and recovery is no fun. I keep all my files in the Documents folder but since that folder gets used by applications also I create a folder within Documents called,"MyStuff" and that is where all my files reside.
-mj

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