MacBook Pro freezes when loading applications

My 15" MacBook Pro doesn't load applications - it boots, logs in, and I can get to my desktop.. however, the colored pinwheel comes up, spins for about a minute and then stops. When I try to click anything (from the dock, Macintosh HD, etc.. the pinwheel comes back up, the icon bounces, and nothing happens, or, the app loads veerrrry slow (i.e it takes 15 minutes to load Firefox..)). I can run in Safe Mode, but can't access my network, printers, etc.. Any help? Thanks!!

Hi Jamie,
Have you tried Repairing Permissions? Go to Applications-Utilities-Disk Utility. Highlight your OS, on the left and click on Repair Permissions below.
If that doesn't help, there is no way to know why this is happening. To me it sounds like software and not hardware related. I would backup my data, and do a clean installation. After that I would run Software Update, and then lastly Repair Permissions. Then transfer your data back.

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The next time you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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If there are long runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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