HT1338 UNresponsive Mac after loading Mountain Lion

Question

hi i upgraded to mountain lion and surprisingly my macbook has become dead slow in accessing any process, for eg if i open my mail or sliding a page in safari etc and switching between apps the cursor goes into indefinite swirl showing the colourful disc, the mac book pro has become useless with its unresponsiveness, i have checked iboost to boost my ram which goes very low inspite of having 6gb of ram and nothing except the browser being opened, i assume some backgound process is eating up my devices memory and moreove my battery life has also been severly compromised from earlier 4-5 hours to maximum of 1.5 to 2 hours only. Please sggest ways to trouble shoot and solve my problem and getting back the mac to its normal glory
To speed up i have taken up the following procee,
I have deleted unwanted apps,
reduced startup process
Removed unwanted cloud based apps like google and skydrive and paused my dropbox folder
Hope this works, with te above i have noted a good improvement in batterylife but the unreposniveness is still prevalent
my  spotlight starts indexing everytime  start my mac book pro, can you please suggest why ?

Answer 1

Try Software Update.  I think you'll need to have Safari 6.0 under Mountain Lion.