MacBook slowing down & even freeze at times.

Hi everyone, it's ben nearly two years that I've got my macbook and it's slowing down and even at times freezes. Although i use iceclean regularly it still is slow...can anyone advise what can be done?

I'm not sure what you want to do - diagnose the problem, or erase your Mac and reinstall OS X.
More information would help. Rather than ask a dozen additional questions please consider the following:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or "failed".
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.

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