HT1338 how to speed up / clean up macbook pro i7 , 2.8ghz, 4gb

i have a macbook pro, 2.8ghz/4gb/i7. recently it opens pages slower than before and was wondering if there was any maintenance that should be done

Empty Caches
Safari > Preference > Advanced
Checkmark the box for "Show Develop menu in menu bar".
Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar.
Click Develop and select "Empty Caches" from the dropdown.
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I'm interested in completely cleaning my Macbook Pro. I've no idea where to start so let me begin by detailing what's going on:
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2) My machine is running slowly. I see the "rainbow wheel of death" much too often. Does this just happen when Macs get old? (Bought in 2010)
3) I want to purge my machine of all old junk that may be cloggin' 'er pipes. Basically, I want to get rid of everything I don't need. Old files: gone. Old, unused programs: gone. That thing I don't know the function of, but sits uselessly in the recondite depths of my memory: GONE.
4) Is there anyway to get my computer running "optimally". Certainly the current state is not even close to good. It's miserably slow.
Can anyone help me out? I imagine there are probably specific fixes for each of these issues, but is there a program out there (or combination of free ones) that will do more than one thing? Would Mac Keeper do these things? What's your advice?

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