Just upgraded to Lion now iMac runs super slow.

Things were running just fine now everything from the internet to iPhoto is running super slow. It hangs for about 10 seconds then moves on. Any thoughts on what I can check to clean up performance?
Thanks,
Andy

You should look at the Activity Monitor (located in /Applications/Utilities) to see what applications and processes are using up your Mac's resources.
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Hardware Information:
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          iMac - model: iMac12,2
          1 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          AMD Radeon HD 6970M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 28 days 20:3:52
Disk Information:
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                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (168.96 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N disk3 : (3.85 GB)
USB Information:
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          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Western Digital Elements 1023 1 TB
                    Roshan External (disk1s1) /Volumes/Roshan External: 1 TB (54.94 GB free)
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          AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 Support
          Silverlight: Version: 3.0.50106.0 Support
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
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Safari Extensions:
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          Slick Savings: Version: 1.0
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Audio Plug-ins:
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          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
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3rd Party Preference Panes:
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          Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro Support
          Flash Player Support
          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          Growl Support
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Time Machine:
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               3%          WindowServer
               2%          Google Chrome
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               0%          Google Drive
               0%          notifyd
Top Processes by Memory:
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          143 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          131 MB          mds_stores
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          317 MB          Inactive RAM
          767 MB          Wired RAM
          791 MB          Page-ins
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