My (brand new) imac with flash hard drive freezes after mavericks update

after updating to the new mavericks my new imac has been slowed down -
when scrolling in finder to select files and tag them it freezes and "thinks" after each file
your help appreciated
its brand new ( only a month old ) and was lightning fast before

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