Problems after bootcamp

For my school I had to use a windows program so I made a partition and so on and installed windows which all went well.
But windows was very slow and now the same thing has happened to my snow leopard.
Then I removed the partition, erased the disk and installed snow leopard 10.6 again but now everything is still very slow. While my cpu usage is very low and even with typing this post little round colourish thingy goes spinning.
I don't know what could be the problem any suggestions?

little round colourish thingy goes spinning.
This sound like the bootcamp / win install may have messed with your PRAM. Older article, but still may be relevant "Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?" (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/can-bootcamp-mess-with-your-macs-pram/1524) states:
+Or perhaps the correct video setting in the Mac’s PRAM is changed by Windows (or Boot Camp), so that Mac OS X asks for a bogus setting when the system reboots. These video settings are stored in the PRAM.+
If that is the case, then may want to look at "Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM" (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379) and "Mac OS X: What's stored in PRAM" (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1242).

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