My iMac keeps getting stuck on the pinwheel what should I do?

My iMac keeps getting stuck on the pinwheel and is running really slow. What should I do?

We need your model of iMac and the version of the Mac OS you have to provide useful help. There are four families of iMacs from 1998 to present, and what fixes one may not fix another.
Pleae do "About this Mac" from your Apple menu; you get something like this:
Tell us what it says for "Processor" and the version of the Mac OS ("!0.5.8" in the above example). Without that, we're running blind.
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