HELP!!! My emac is dying

Hi,
1) My eMac will not allow me to shut down or restart my computer using the shut down option under the blue apple.
2) Every time I get a window saying that I need to click ok or cancel, it will crash, or unexpectedly quit the program it is in.
3) I have a 30gb hard drive in my mac, and 20 of it seems to be gone, I have only tried to work on 1 movie in iMovie, which now quits any time the spinner comes up, and a couple of games.
My mac is about 3-4 years old, is there any way I can save it until I buy a new one? Because it is to the point where I can not work on it anymore.
thanks.

Hi Daniel, Welocme to Discussions.
As John asked:
Please list your computer specs here In Discussions sidebar - ->
Go to Preferences > "My computer" and tell us your model, iMac, eMac, PwrMac, etc. G3, G4, G5, Mac OS Version (10.4.x 10.3.x), 000 MB RAM, 000 MHz All on your blue Apple pull down menu > "About this Mac"
(Also, 000 GB HD) for this choose your hard drive then "Get Info" (COMMAND + i. tell us capacity and avaiable) This helps us help you better.
1) Often a connected peripheral kicks back a signal to the cpu preventing shutdown or restart. Disconnect all peripheral devices. Remeber to unmount any firewire drives before disconnecting. Now test your Mac with only your Apple keyboard and mouse connected.
2) Create a new account, name it "test" and see how your apps work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences > Accounts > "+" make it an admin account.
Let us know and we'll troubleshoot this further.
3) May be covered in 1 & 2
I don't think your Mac is "dying", let us know.

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