My MBP from December 2007 is beginning to slow down...some advice please

i thought about restoring the entire hard drive.. is this a complicated procedure.. delete the whole drive and reinstall the OS system? would it speed it up after?

Hi m,
BGreg offers good suggestions I'd try before nuking the whole HD. If you do decide to go that way, here's a process you could use that is not too complicated, but is time consuming.
Backup. I would clone to an external HD using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper!, and also create a Time Machine backup.
After that:
1. Boot from install disc (press power button, immediately insert install disc and hold down c key).
2. Select your language.
3. Open Disk Utility from Utilities menu.
4. Select the HD in the left pane (the manufacturer’s name and the HD model number).
5. Click on the Erase tab.
6. Choose the Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
NOTE: if you want to zero the HD (which I always think is a good idea, but does take time), click on Security Options, click the button for Zero Out Data, click OK. The larger the HD, the longer this will take, in some cases several hours.
7. Click on Erase and wait for the entire process to finish.
8. Click the Partition tab.
9. Click on Volume Scheme: and choose the number of partitions (normally just one unless you have other plans).
10. Click on the Options button (located underneath the Volume Scheme pane) and select GUID.
11. Click Apply.
12. Quit Disk Utility and continue with the installation process to install OSX; when finished, repair permissions, run updates, repair permissions.
13. Following this, restore your data: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553 (link also includes backing up using Disk Utility).

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