My mac is incredibly slow all of a sudden!

I went to a friend's house and tried to use his internet. It said there was a problem with the IP address so I just closed my mac and forgot about it. When I got home the whole thing is ridiculously slow.
Websites take a minute a page to load so it's pretty much unusable.
I can't move files around on the desktop.
I can't copy and paste.
Textedit doesn't do spellcheck.
Several strange things like the above have occured but my major issue is how slow everything is. And if I can't drag files around and make copies, I can't put everything on my data stick and then reboot it.
Any ideas what is going on with it? And any help?
Thanks

Slowness may be determined by many factors, definitely not because you went to your frind, and came back, it must be a mere coincidence. The first thought is that your disk may be full, how much free disk space is there? (right click on the disk, then Info or command-I). The second possibility is that you installed something incompatible with your system. A thrid cause may be a dying disk. And some other possibilities.
You must have at least 10 % free disk space for a good run.

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I tried to boot the mac with cmd r and reinstall. However the moment it connects to the internet the mothing happens i let it run for 2.5 hours and the blue bar did not even give me 1% (my internet on my mac air has no problems.
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Activity monitor"
memory free 50gig of 150
RAM free 1 out of 3 gig
CPU
user 1.5%
system 1.50%
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system memory
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wired 593.6 mb
active 661.9
inactive 766
disk activity
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My Moms Desktop is running slow all of a sudden...?

My mother is really upset about her Desktop being slow all of a sudden. But her computer had updated something automatically earlier in the day when I was on. I'm not sure what it was exactly. She also said it was working earlier today as well once I left, and then after that she signed off. Once she logged back in it was way slower than normal. Even when I logged in before she got home tonight it took about 5-10 mintues just to startup from logging onto it. She called the Century Link company to tmake sure it wasn't her internet or anything but the guy just hung up on her while he was asking her a lot of questions that she had already done. And we tried re-starting it, and she said she tried to reboot it but the computer didn't even bring up the restore page because it's really slow. And then after that we finally got to restore the computer it still is running really slow. Is there any other way we can fix this?

If the issue began as the result of an update, then use Windows system restore to put the PC back in the state it was in before the update was performed. Choose a system checkpoint dated just before the update.
You have not stated which operating system is installed. that always helps. Gp into thee Control Panel; and click on Programs and features. In the left side of the window select view installed updates to see what was installed and the specific date. Note the date and then go into System restore. Chose the system checkpoint with the same date as the update and then committ to the system restore point. When the PC is restarted it should return to its formerly percieved speed, if the update was indeed the issue. Afterwards turn off automatic updates and set Windows update to check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them . Take control of the updates that your PC receives. Don't let the operating system do that for you automatically.
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This is an update from mariefromarnold:
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Hi, I'm not a qualified server technician but am currently trying my best to run a server in a Secondary School! Please help, need to fix ASAP.
So basically we've got a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard server which has become incredibly slow in the past week. Nothing has changed in our department to trigger this. Here's everything I know so far...
- If I try to log on to the admin account when "Some Network Accounts Are Available", log on will take under a minute. If I try to log on to the admin account when the light goes green and "Network Accounts Are Available" log on will take forever and eventually just crash and which point I have to just force a shutdown and try again.
- When I can log on, some aspects of the computing seems fast and other aspects are really slow. For example, a few programs open as soon as I log on no problem, however a simple spotlight search or trying to open Sytem Preferences will crash the computer completely.
- Have tried booting in Safe Mode, and everything ran fast and how it's mean to but once restarting and booting normally the problems remained.
Sorry for the lack of knowledge!!
Thanks in advance.

Your comment indicates "crash the computer"? Do you mean that OS X Server itself fails, and you have to reboot? Or that the application crashes, and you have to restart it?
The following are some general approaches toward gathering some data:
Launch Console.app from Applications > Utilities and see if there are blocks of repeating errors.
Launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and issue the following harmess, diagnostic command:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
After entering an administrative password and possibly seeing a one-time informational message about sudo, you should see some network configuration information and then an indication that no changes are required, or that there are DNS or network errors.
Boot from the Snow Leopard installation DVD and run a volume verification pass using Disk Utility, this from the Utilities menu of the installation disl.
FWIW...
If the applications or OS X Server are crashing, then you're generally heard toward either a reinstallation of the software, or a hardware repair, or quite possibly a combination of the two.
Forcing a hard shutdown can lead to corruptions, depending on exactly what's going on when the power drops out; that's probably best left as a last-resort approach and one best avoided.

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I have a 1st generation Intel iMac (24", late 2006), which ran fine for three years but all of a sudden slowed to a crawl about a month ago. I upgraded to 3GB of RAM, but didn't see any improvement; I've run the disk utility app on the system install disk and didn't get any problems; I don't see anything in the Activity Monitor that's hogging CPU usage (although iTunes uses about 7% while playing music and 20% while playing video - considerably higher when it loads a new track into RAM); and I have 70GB free on a 300GB hard disk. I realize that this is just scratching the surface, so what else should I be looking at? For what it's worth, yes I have an HP printer, but the drivers don't seem to take up that much CPU time; and I'm still on 10.4.11, so maybe it's just time to upgrade to Snow Leopard; but either way I've been on this system (and with this printer) for a long time, and I don't understand why this would happen all of a sudden...
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HI,
70GB free disk space could be at least part of the problem for the disk slowing down.
Try Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
Check the startup disk for errors that may need repairing.
Insert your install disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
*(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. *Make sure there is always 10% to 15% free disk space*
If you cannot boot from your install disc, try booting in Safe Mode
How to Force Background Maintenance
One way to free up disk space...
Open Console. Select system.log then from the Menu Bar click Reveal in Finder then move that log file to the Trash. These logs can take up as much as a GB.
Carolyn

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OS X Mavericks: If your Mac runs slowly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13895
Cheers,
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Hi
I have a macbookpro i bought in 2012 with following specifications
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Hello t@singh
Check out the article below for your MacBook Pro running slow and slowing your productivity. Check Activity Monitor to see if your RAM is being used up and also check the hard drive using Disk Utility.
OS X Lion: If your Mac runs slowly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3915
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used (OS X Mountain Lion and earlier)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1342
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