How to I fix spinning wheel

My mac is often stalled with spinning wheel.
What is best method to fix it?

Check your RAM. If you are running lion and have 2GB, you need to upgrade. I was with a genius yesterday who told me Lion needs over 1 GB to run.
I installed the new RAM myself and it was not hard at all - and I have never opened a computer before in my life. My mac is a whole new machine.
Good luck and I hope this helps!

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I had LogMeIn installed on my iMac and it worked fine for a while. Then the icon for the program in the menu bar at the top of the screen went gray. When I hover the mouse over the icon a spinning pinwheel appears, so I can't click the icon to start the program. I deleted the program and then reinstalled it, but the gray icon and spinning wheel never whent away. Any thoughts on how to delete the spinning wheel would be appreciated. I'm a novice on the IMac. Thanks.

Problem solved. Placed Icon for Log Me In on dock and rebooted iMac. Not sure why, but it worked.

How to stop the spinning wheel?

How to stop the spinning wheel?

Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or "failed".
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.

How do I stop spinning wheel?

How do I stop spinning wheel? Opt command esc does nothing. While downloading video I fgot message that my startup disc was full. Now can't do anything. .?

Have a look here > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
Also see here > what-to-do-when-your-hard-drive-is-full.html

Been trying to fix spinning wheel for over a week HELP!

My Snow Leopard IMac has been stuck in spinning wheel mode forever I have used utility to verify permission and to repair disk but no matter what each time I start the computer I get a message that Firefox hasn't logged out because there is a script running. It asks if I want to stop the scrip but whenever I move the mouse to say yes it just starts the spinning wheel again and I have no control over the computer at all because moving the mouse just wakes up the spinning wheel.
How can i get my computer back please?? Thanks if you can help with this FOREVER problem?

I will try those --- I would say that I did try to start it earlier today with the Shift Key held on startup which I guess is supposed to be SAFE MODE? anyway - the same thing happened in safe mode, the endless spinning.
I don't understand Safe Mode or what it is supposed to do but it didn't do anything in my case.
I will read your links and hopefully be able to figure this out.
Is there any way in terminal that I can figure out what is making this spinning thing?
For a long time when i tried to start my computer it would always say You were not logged out because Firefox was still running or something along that line and I had the spinner but it would quit - This was going on for a month or so at least prior to this problem

HT1338 everything works but continuous spinning wheel on iPhoto. how can i stop this or exit this screen?

How do I stop spinning wheel on iphoto. everything else works, but cant close iphoto file. help.

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html

How to fix my wheel when it is frozen

how do i fix my wheel on my ipod nano
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If a reset or restore the device in iTunes does not take care of the issue, it's likely hardware related meaning you'll need to have your iPod serviced, either by Apple (for a flat fee) or a third party repair company.
B-rock

MacBook doesnt boot. It shows Apple logo and spinning wheel. Soon it wont go beyond prohibitory sign with spinning wheel

I have a MacBook (Late 2008 edition) having Mac OS X 10.6.8 SnowLeopard OS installed (2 X 512GB RAM, 160 HDD). I copied some mp3 into iTunes library and soon the process got stucked. MacBook was not accepting any command/it seemed to got hanged. Carelessly, I switched the MacBook OFF by pressing the Power button. Now, when it began to boot again, all I hear was some clicking sound from the MacBook (seems HardDrive failure because the sounds seems to be from HardDrive). After few seconds, It showed flashing folder with question mark and it wont go beyond that.
Steps I tried:
1. Resetting NVRAM, PVRAM and SMC.
2. Booting in safe mode.
3. To boot from install DVD (Mac OS X 10.6.3 SnowLeopard).
4. Holding down 'option' button while booting. It shows the "Mac OS X Install DVD" icon but as I click it and press return, it again shows Apple logo with spinning wheel and little later it shows prohibitory sign with spinning wheel. This will now remain for ever and ever.
5. I bought a new 500 GB HardDrive and replaced the old one with this. Now trying to boot with DVD (Mac OS X 10.6.3 SnowLeopard) it again hows Apple logo with spinning wheel and little later it shows prohibitory sign with spinning wheel. This will remain for ever.
Any suggestions to overcome this problem will be highly appreciated and I'll be very grateful for all your help.
Thanking You.

Hi julenawang,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like your MacBook has a startup issue and you aren't able to reinstall Mac OS X on a new hard disk. The article linked below has a lot of great information and suggestions that will resolve most issues like the one you described.
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
I hope this helps.
-Jason

How can i fix my mac book pro i bought in mid 2010, it is slowing down. the pin wheel does spin a alot.

how can i fix my mac book pro i bought in mid 2010, it is slowing down. the pin wheel does spin a alot.

try this;
open disk utility - verify disk permissions - repair disk permissions if errors are found. might take an hour or less - depending on how much errors needs to be repaired.
restart your macbook and see if that sorts it out for you.
also check your hard drive space. if your hard drive is almost full, that will also contribute to your macbook getting slower....
good luck

What is the cause of the Spinning Wheel of Death (SWOD) and how can we fix it?

What is the cause of the Spinning Wheel of Death (SWOD) and how can we fix it?
I get the SWOD using Safari, Mail, Google chrome, Firefox, Mathematica, and other programs. This cannot be a browser plug-in issues as other forums suggest. I suspect a windows process at the root but I don't enough to know how to trace. Does anyone know what's causeing this epidemic?

I'm having a similar problem. Someone PLEASE HELP!
I'll start with just an example of what I've been facing. During the composing of this post, when I switched from Firefox to Word, I had to wait 60 seconds before the spinning wheel stopped and I got a cursor. I then copied one set of Etrecheck results, switched back to Firefox, hit Command-v to paste and had to wait 45 seconds or so for the spinning wheel to stop. And the paste operation didn't paste until I hit Command-v again (with no wait this time).
Here's what I've done:
I tried three times to run a scan with avast! and all three times the scan was unable to complete.
I restarted holding down Command-r and it found and fixed many permissions, but found no problems with files.
I ran Etrecheck in a "Safe Boot" and in a normal startup and there were two things that were tagged as "[failed]" in the normal startup:
Launch Agents: [failed]com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist Support
User Launch Agents: [failed][email protected]
I apologize for taking up so much space, but here are the results from both Etrecheck runs:
EtreCheck in Safe Mode
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated July 24, 2014 3:38:40 PM CDT
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro4,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
5 GB RAM
Video Information: GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 512 MB
Color LCD 1680 x 1050
System Software: Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Uptime: 0 days 0:12:35
Disk Information: WDC WD1600BEVS-00VAT0 disk0 : (160.04 GB) disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 159.18 GB (27.6 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information: Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Kernel Extensions:
[not loaded]com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (4.1.2 - SDK 10.6) Support
[not loaded]com.avast.AvastFileShield (2.1.0 - SDK 10.9) Support
[not loaded]com.avast.PacketForwarder (1.4 - SDK 10.9) Support
[not loaded]com.devguru.driver.CDFree (0.1.8) Support
[not loaded]com.devguru.driver.DevGuruVsp (0.1.8) Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect (7.0 15107.796624) Support
[not loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmci (3.1.4) Support
[not loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmioplug (3.1.4) Support
[not loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmnet (3.1.4) Support
[not loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (3.1.4) Support
Startup Items: HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
Launch Daemons:
[not loaded]com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[not loaded]com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[not loaded]com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist Support
[not loaded]com.avast.init.plist Support
[not loaded]com.avast.uninstall.plist Support
[not loaded]com.avast.update.plist Support
[not loaded]com.cloudpath.maccmd.plist Support
[not loaded]com.crashplan.engine.plist Support
[not loaded]com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.raupdate.plist Support
[not loaded]com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[not loaded]com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[not loaded]com.orbicule.uc.plist Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist Support
[not loaded]com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[not loaded]com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[not loaded]com.avast.userinit.plist Support
[not loaded]com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[not loaded]com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeingui.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist Support
[not loaded]com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[not loaded]com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded]com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[not loaded]com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[not loaded]com.akamai.single-user-client.plist Support
[not loaded][email protected]
[not loaded]com.avast.home.userinit.plist Support
User Login Items:
CrashPlan menu bar
VMware Fusion Start Menu
Dropbox
TeamViewer
EvernoteHelper
Internet Plug-ins: GlancePlugIn: Version: 2.5.6 - SDK 10.4 Support
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 Support
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.10 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
LogMeIn: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30317.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.1.0 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.10 Support
LogMeInSafari32: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.2 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 60 Check version
Safari Extensions: avast! Online Security: Version: 9.0.2022.120
Audio Plug-ins: iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1 - SDK 10.7
iTunes Plug-ins: Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.3 - SDK 10.7
User iTunes Plug-ins: TuneUp Visualizer: Version: 2.2.0 Support
User Internet Plug-ins:
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.26 Support
WebEx64: Version: 1.0 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Akamai NetSession Preferences Support
Citrix online plug-in Support
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Java Support
Perian Support
Time Machine: Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
23%firefox
2%WindowServer
1%Microsoft Word
0%Finder
0%Microsoft Excel
Top Processes by Memory:
307 MBfirefox
164 MBMicrosoft Word
108 MBMicrosoft Excel
90 MBWindowServer
72 MBDock
Virtual Memory Information:
1.11 GBFree RAM
1.14 GBActive RAM
392 MBInactive RAM
2.36 GBWired RAM
341 MBPage-ins
0 BPage-outs
EtreCheck in Normal Mode
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48) Report generated July 24, 2014 3:59:15 PM CDT
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro4,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores 5 GB RAM
Video Information:
GeForce 8600M GT - VRAM: 512 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Uptime: 0 days 0:11:57
Disk Information:
WDC WD1600BEVS-00VAT0 disk0 : (160.04 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 159.18 GB (27.56 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Kernel Extensions:
[loaded]com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (4.1.2 - SDK 10.6) Support
[loaded]com.avast.AvastFileShield (2.1.0 - SDK 10.9) Support
[loaded]com.avast.PacketForwarder (1.4 - SDK 10.9) Support
[not loaded]com.devguru.driver.CDFree (0.1.8) Support
[not loaded]com.devguru.driver.DevGuruVsp (0.1.8) Support
[loaded]com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded]com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect (7.0 15107.796624) Support
[loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmci (3.1.4) Support
[loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmioplug (3.1.4) Support
[loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmnet (3.1.4) Support
[loaded]com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (3.1.4) Support
Startup Items:
HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
Launch Daemons:
[loaded]com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded]com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[loaded]com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist Support
[loaded]com.avast.init.plist Support
[loaded]com.avast.uninstall.plist Support
[loaded]com.avast.update.plist Support
[loaded]com.cloudpath.maccmd.plist Support
[running]com.crashplan.engine.plist Support
[loaded]com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist Support
[running]com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist Support
[loaded]com.logmein.raupdate.plist Support
[loaded]com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded]com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[running]com.orbicule.uc.plist Support
[running]com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist Support
[loaded]com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[not loaded]com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded]com.avast.userinit.plist Support
[loaded]com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[loaded]com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist Support
[failed]com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist Support
[running]com.logmein.logmeingui.plist Support
[running]com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist Support
[not loaded]com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist Support
[loaded]com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[running]com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist Support
[loaded]com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist Support
[loaded]com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist Support
[running]com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded]com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded]com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[running]com.akamai.single-user-client.plist Support
[failed][email protected]
[loaded]com.avast.home.userinit.plist Support
User Login Items:
CrashPlan menu bar
VMware Fusion Start Menu
Dropbox
TeamViewer
EvernoteHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
GlancePlugIn: Version: 2.5.6 - SDK 10.4 Support
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 Support
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.10 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
LogMeIn: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30317.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.1.0 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.10 Support
LogMeInSafari32: Version: 1.0.935 - SDK 10.7 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.2 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 60 Check version
Safari Extensions:
avast! Online Security: Version: 9.0.2022.120
Audio Plug-ins:
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1 - SDK 10.7
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.3 - SDK 10.7
User iTunes Plug-ins:
TuneUp Visualizer: Version: 2.2.0 Support
User Internet Plug-ins:
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.26 Support
WebEx64: Version: 1.0 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Akamai NetSession Preferences Support
Citrix online plug-in Support
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Java Support
Perian Support
Time Machine:
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
6%WindowServer
4%mdworker
2%SystemUIServer
0%LogMeIn
0%configd
Top Processes by Memory:
113 MBCrashPlanService
108 MBcom.avast.daemon
108 MBDropbox
92 MBFinder
67 MBSystemUIServer
Virtual Memory Information:
2.61 GBFree RAM
1.19 GBActive RAM
651 MBInactive RAM
573 MBWired RAM
534 MBPage-ins
0 BPage-outs
There were two listed as [failed]:
Launch Agents:
[failed]com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[failed][email protected]

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I used utilities to source my 10.6 snow leopard install disc to my main hardrive, and now when I turn on my computer the apple with the spinning wheel stays on the screen and stuck like that. How do I fix it Help please. I already tried all the commands such as Command R, Holding down the Option key, C and holding down shift at the start up but nothing happens.
initialy All I was trying to do was downgrade 10.7 to 10.6 .

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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689
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Can't get Mail to work - I get the spinning wheel and Mail freezes. I have to Force Quit Mail . How do I fix this problem?

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

HT200116 imovie is trying to open, opens and then the spinning wheel takes over, why and how do I fix this issue?

imovie is trying to open, opens and then the spinning wheel takes over, why and how do I fix this issue?

Finder Go menu --> Go To Folder... "~/Library/Preferences", then
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My creative cloud app shows a spinning wheel that never stops. It won't show that I am downloading the photoshop trial. How do I fix this problem?

My creative cloud app shows a spinning wheel that never stops. It won't show that I am downloading the photoshop trial. How do I fix this problem?

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I keep getting the spinning wheel, and macbook pro seems to be slowing down. How do i fix this without buying software?

I keep getting the spinning wheel, and macbook pro seems to be slowing down. How do i fix this without buying software?

Go to system profiler and report back the amount of RAM that you have.
Make sure that you have at least 20% of your hard drive free.
Make sure you don't have a lot of items on your desktop as that can slow things down.
Quit applications that aren't responding or you aren't using and won't be using for a while.
~/Library/Caches Quit all applications and delete this folder. Do a regular delete then do a secure erase on all the items that won't delete.
If it only happens with a certain application (Safari for example)...
1. Quit the application (Safari)
2. Open ~/Library/Preferences and find the file for safari (com.apple.Safari.plist).
3. Put the file in the trash. Do NOT empty the trash yet. Open the application and make sure everything's ok. Now you can delete the file. In Mail if you trash the file, you will get rid or your setup.
Make sure that your dashboard doesn't have too many widgets and use Activity Monitor to see what it's using.
There are ways to disable if you want to.
Make sure that all of your software is up to date.
Repair permissions (it can't hurt)
Don't have a lot of login items.
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