Mountain lion slow to start system

well,
i am update my ML yesterday, i have 8G memory core 2 duo 2.6 hd 500gb.
anyway my mountain lion now need like 4 5 minutes to load when i am restart, before i load system very fast in 40 seconds.
and the first minutes after load the system everything is slow, i check if the memory are installed but i see the 8g run.
the first time open programs it is very slow after that the programs start be very fast, chrome is slow everything slow.
i test smart utility and my hd is passed, i am install the ML from zero, i put the new hardrive format and install, working very fast and great, today start that
anyway that happend because the last update? someone have tips??? what can be? if system? something install these days or memory error?

Open Disk Utility and repair permissions. Open Finder, press Option key, select Go > Library, open Preferences and delete com.apple.finder.plist. Finally, restart. http://www.reedcorner.net/understanding-upgrade-nightmares/

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Sadly I'm back. Things worked fine for a while but starting up takes about half an hour and I just can't spend the rest of my life waiting for the little ******* to do its thing...
The Hal beachball is back and every piece of software even the finder crashes constantly...Force Quit is not my friend.
My most recent attempt to keep my sanity was to wipe the drive and reinstall Snow Leopard from the original disk. Hal is still not happy.....
Is there anything else I can do?
Time machine won't go through its paces so I have no backups on the laptop....no previous data (all still on external drive)
This Macbok pro is a MAJOR DISASTER.....Help me Obie One....Help Me!!!!

You're positivity in the midst of chaos is refreshing! Apple should hire you as the official Apple Communities Grief Counseler
Can you charge a computer with murder?
If Ray Kurtzweil is right (The Singularity Is Near ), then soon enough, yes. Hal will be convicted on all counts.
Sadly we still have a missing iPhoto...So Apple expects me to pay $15.99 for it and it only works on 10.7 and above???
Did you have the original iLife CD? I am pretty sure that your machine ships with it (could be wrong). If you don't have it, you can contact Apple and ask for them to send a replacement free of charge. It had to have gotten on there somehow originally.
Now on the whiskey....
Right there with you. Neat or on the rocks? I prefer the former in your situation, in most situations, all the time.
#Raises glass
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Mountain Lion slows down my iMac .
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Now I find that it is much slower .
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even switching between tabs in web browser .
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Why is the down load of mountain lion slow

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I loaded Mountain Lion and now my Canon Canoscan LIDE100 Scanner won't work. I reloaded the application, checked the driver & loaded the Canon driver for Mountain Lion. Aplication starts to load then hangs up on 80% complete. Any suggestions?

I loaded Mountain Lion and now my Canon Canoscan LIDE100 Scanner won't work. I reloaded the application, checked the Cannon website for the correct driver & loaded the Canon driver for Mountain Lion. Aplication starts to load then hangs up on 80% complete. Any suggestions?

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21in. imac running Mountain Lion will not start just get grey no entry sign

21in. imac running Mountain Lion will not start just get grey no entry sign

David,
Please carefuly read what Apple says in how to troubleshoot this issue. Also PLEASE complete your profile,we don't even know what iMac you have or the version of OS X it is running.
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How do you stop Mountain Lion slowing everything down

I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion - which I so regret doing now.
I have a 24 inch iMac core duo 2.6ghz with 8 GB RAM (mid 2009) and a mid 2010 Mac Mini core duo 2.4ghz with 4GB RAM - so both with maximum RAM installable. Both Hard drives are under half full.
I use the Office 2011 for Mac software as well as the normal iLife suite. I occasionally use parallels to run some Windows software, but I always swith parallels off when not using it. And I occasionally have logmein running when I am going to be away for a few days, but switch it off when I am back. That's it - nothing too weird.
Since upgrading both to Mountain Lion I now experience a hige slowness in using anything. Web pages take ages to load. A Word dociment can take 30 second to open. It takes over 90 seconds to start up iMovie etc.
I saw posts on this formum suggesting that I
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b) delete the caches in ~/Library and in /Library
c) reboot
I have done all these things. Immediately afterwards my system speeded up to a more acceptable level. But 2 days later and it is back to an unacceptable slow speed
Surely I dont have to keep doing the three things above every day?
is there a way of going back to Snow Leopard? That will be much cheaper than having to buy a new iMac (which are way too expensive and the 21inch screen would be a downsize from what I have now and the bigger screen is even further beyond my budget
Or can anyone help me get Mountain Lion working quickly - all the time?
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I have the same early 2009 24" iMac as you do and I just completed reverting back to Snow Leopard from Mountain Lion.
The process was time consuming and took about 3 days to do. I also reverted an early 2011 MacBook Pro which also took 3 days.
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iLife '11 and iWork '09 run under Snow Leopard and so those are not an issue. They can just be reinstalled after Snow Leopard is running.
The four parts of the reversion that entail some work are; 1: converting your Mountain Lion Mail boxes to Snow Leopard, 2: converting your Mountain Lion iPhoto Library back to Snow Leopard, 3: converting your Contacts (Address Book) to Snow Leopard and 4: converting Calendar (iCal) to Snow Leopard.
Converting Mountain Lion Mail to Snow Leopard
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Using the Snow Leopard installation DVD, restart your machine while pressing the C key to start from the DVD. Use Snow Leopard's Disk Utility to erase the hard drive completely overwriting it with zeros. (Be sure to select the hard drive itself and not just the Macintosh HD partition as you want to completely erase the HD). This will take about an hour and a half.
Next, Install Snow Leopard and then apply ALL software updates. You will need to repeat Software Update until Software Update displays the software is all up to date message. Next install iLife, iWork and all other Apple software and again, apply ALL software updates. The point is to get the standard Apple software running and configured before installing any other applications.
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I've been a programmer and in the IT industry for over 30 years and if there is one piece of advice I can give you it is this: take your time doing all of this and be sure that each component is working correctly before moving on to the next. It's tedious and time consuming but it can be done.
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