MBP Periodically Running Slow After Just 1 Month

The other day, my computer randomly started to struggle, as if the frame rate was dragging. Video through VLC worked fine, however. After restarting (shut down took much longer than usual), it was solved. Typing seemed slowed as well.
And today, the Quick Look Helper began sucking up my quad core to around 15%. I reset the PRAM and that seemed to solve the problem for now, but it's been struggling for a while -- stuttering on flash videos and what not.
However, the computer running slow has been a persistent issue nonetheless, and yes I've accounted for my limited 4GB RAM, but it's struggled purely on Chrome on occasion.
Any ideas for why I'm seeing bottlenecking like this?

Try these:
First - go to system preferences - startup disk and select your hard drive as the startup drive (if already selected - select it again) - and restart your Macbook.
Second - once you've done the first one - go to disk utility and verify your disk permissions - repair if errors are found and restart your Macbook once the repairs are done.
Last - if none of the above works for you, do a SMC RESET.
good luck

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Problem description:
Mac is running slow after upgrading to Yosemite.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.1 (104)
Report generated December 10, 2014 at 10:51:13 AM PST
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) (Verified)
MacBook - model: MacBook5,1
1 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
Cinema Display 1680 x 1050
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 1:33:11
Disk Information: ℹ️
ST9500420AS disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (196.94 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N
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Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
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3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
BrowserPlus [Support]
Carbonite [Support]
Flash Player [Support]
Flip4Mac WMV [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
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Destinations:
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Total number of backups: 65
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      70% iPhoto
      20% TOCGenerator
      18% WindowServer
      9% Time Out Break
      6% CarboniteDaemon
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463 MB iPhoto
137 MB Mail
116 MB Google Chrome
106 MB WindowServer
99 MB iTunes
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114 MB Free RAM
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1.21 GB Inactive RAM
857 MB Wired RAM
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Also resetting SMC could solve the problem.
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Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. You may already have answered some of them. In that case, there's no need to repeat the answers.
Have you restarted your router and your broadband device (if they're separate) since you first noticed the problem? If not, do that now and see whether there's any change.
If your browser is Safari, then from the Safari menu bar, select
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and confirm. Any change?
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Stop plug-ins to save power
Any change?
Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
Log out and log back in. Any change?
Enable Private Browsing in the Safari menu. Any change?
Are any other web browsers installed, and are they the same? What about other Internet applications, such as iTunes and the App Store?
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My computer is running slow after Yosemite install -but in the Mail program, when I open an email and then open the attachment -all is good -when I close the attachment the Mail program goes away, and I have to reopen it in my Dock -every time -been

My computer is running slow after Yosemite install -but in the Mail program, when I open an email and then open the attachment -all is good -when I close the attachment the Mail program goes away, and I have to reopen it in my Dock -every time.

I tried this, but no luck. I went to Previous System>Users. There is nothing inside the "Users" folder, so I hit a dead end.
I can find my new e-mails -- those that came in since I re-installed the system -- in my NEW system (which I did to see if I was correctly understanding the advice), by going to Users>Home>Library>Mail>POP account name>Inbox.
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I have an early 2008 macbook pro that is running slow after upgrading to lion. Is there anything I can do? this is what I have,Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive may be failing.
Launch the usual set of applications you use when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ 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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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the page that opens.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. What approximate values are shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec?
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Problem description:
MBP running slow
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated April 3, 2015 at 9:12:17 AM EDT
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    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
    1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Video Information: ℹ️
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        Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ 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 and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered 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 by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
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.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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