I can't get rid of the spinning beachball.What can i do? Does it need cleaning or what or will it correct itself?

How do i get rid of the spinning beachball? It never stops.Do i need to clean my Mac Pro or do i just wait and let it correct or what? I have a Mac OS X,10.7.5

please tell us how much Ram (memory) you have on board. You can find this by going to the Apple in the corner of your screen, then about this mac, then system report.  that beachball is known as a kernel panic, I think. If you have an application that is stuck, go to Activity monitor and force quit that application if it doesn't want to quit on its own. Also, try running disk utility and repairing permissions.
well, it's a start, anyways, you don't really need to clean your mac pro, or run MacKeeper or anything like that (bad idea)
John B

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