My Mac Mini is running very slowly how can I sort this out?

I have a Mac Mini which is constantly backed up. I use it a lot for everything and run two email accounts - one gmail and one business. I appear to have only used 1/4 of the memory. I have looked at the activity monitor but it does not mean much to me I am afraid. Can anyone help?

Have you looked here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5295279?tstart=0

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I have just bought a 2011 iMac (2.5 ghz, 4gb) and logic express 9, and when i installed logic and tried to run it i had a message saying 'you can't use this version of the application logic express with this version of Mac OS X. How do i sort this out!? It is very frustrating as the main reason i have bought a mac is to use logic! Any help would be great as i am a complete novice when it comes to Macs!

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Hi, I created a new user on mac, Admin but I can't use adobe CS6 while the original user is admin too and all programs are running normal. How can I solve this problem?

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