Problems with sound and safari slowness

installed mavericks on a macbook pro from 2011, 2.5 GHz and 4GB RAM
the sound icon on the top menu bar is light grey, won't open in system preferences (spinning beach ball of death...)
safari takes FOREVER to load new pages, especially outlook, and new tabs...
anybody else having issues or have solutions?

For the sound issue ..
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac. See if the sound icon is bold in the status menu bar and try System Preferences > Sound
As for Safari, try troubleshooting Safari extensions and third party plugins.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.
If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.
Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect: Allow all other plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.

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