Mac mini doesn't do anything after startup

My early 2009 Mac mini doesn't allow me to do anything after booting. Once the desktop loads, anything I do causes a spinning beach ball to appear.
Important info: Hard drive has over 30Gb of free space, so that isn't an issue.
Help please!

To be honest, I think it's over 60Gb of free space. The hard drive is either 320Gb or 360Gb.
I can't check
EDIT: I'm completely wrong, it has 112GB left of 320
Message was edited by: Ert00044

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