OSX 10.9.1 Slow!

For the past two weeks, my MacBookPro OSX 10.9.1 has been moving extremly slow. I clean out my cookies and delete temp files. I also use Clean My Mac on a regular basis.
It's very frustrating when I'm working from home.
Anyone else have this issue?
I still have AppleCare coverage, so wondering if I should take it in for a diagnostic?
Ginny

Fixing a Mavericks Installation Problem
How to manage a failed OS X Mavericks installation | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews.
Try these in order:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and
     after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears.
     Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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Maybe you can search for a method to boot single user mode (no graphical) and run a files system check or at least schedule one for your next reboot. That is what I used to do on unix machines. Finding your system install disk would be easier. The only time I've ever had weirdness like this is 99% of the time related to file structures or permissions, bad programs usually show up as kernel panics or memory leaks causing thrashing.
While it is running slow, what does the activity monitor say for CPU load? Memory allocation?

OSX Lion, It is slow and really lumpy/jerky Can I revert back to Snow leopard?

Where are Apple?
Had OSXLion for a week and it is nothing like as fast as the last OS, screen changes are really slow and jerky and the whole thing feels slower. Is there anything that I can do, or can I revert back to Snow Leopard?
This is a real shame never had this type of issue with Apple before.

This is a user to user forum. You can only revert to Snow Leopard through your backup. You might attempt piecemeal data recovery after backing up your Lion system, and copying your e-mail folders to IMAP if they weren't stored there before. Spotlight frequently needs to finish updating in the menu in the upper right (it will only have a search field if it is done, and say it is indexing if it is not), or some plugins may need upgrading to be Lion compatible before you upgrade to Lion. See my FAQs*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html#LION

OSX 10.4.9 slow user account

I wonder if anyone can help. I have a G5 dual Power PC with 4 user accounts on it. Recently, the fourth account has started to behave oddly, being slow to load, the dock has vanished, and the spinning beach ball is there all the time. The account is practically unusable. Grateful for any advice anyone can offer. Thank you. Brian

Since it's only happening with one account, I suggest deleting it, saving user data (which puts it into a disk image inside /Users/Deleted Users/), and recreating it using the same username/password combo. Log into the new account, mount the deleted account's disk image, and transfer the data to the new account. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2316.html and http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106256 for details. Other information can be found using Finder->Help->Mac Help-> search for deleted user account.
Note that Apple's knowledge base system is currently down for system maintenance.

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