It takes forever opening folders ... (iMac 2007 - Leopard)

In fact, everything is slowing down, but I can live with that, except for opening existing folders or naming newly created folders.
Is it usefull to upgrade to Snow Leopard (> Mountain Lion) to speeding things up?
iMac 2007 (iMac 7.1) 2.8 GHz 4GB Memory HD 465 GB (170 GB Free)

Open Activity Monitor, Show:>All Processes, sort on CPU%, see if anything using too much CPU% when this happens, click on Memory tab, do you have many Pageouts?
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029

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