Preview slow & Adjust Size greyed out

Preview has started running slow and I can't adjust the size of a jpeg file - Adjust Size is greyed out. I'm running OS10.9.1 on a MacBook Air. Never had this before. Any ideas please?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,3
          1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
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Disk Information:
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                    disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 319.21 GB (200.88 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-868
USB Information:
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          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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          com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring          (9.0)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
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