Programs are slow loading..

Okay, so I'm posting this for my husband that is currently deployed and having issues with his macbook that he just purchased right before he left (Febuary). His computer is now giving him troubles with programs taking ages to load. He said that one program took about 3 hours to load completely. What/any advice can I give him to resolve this issue? He has the warrenty package but since I'm in Alaska, shipping costs are expensive and we'd like to avoid them as much as possible. Please help if you know of any suggetions that I can give him and what not. Thank you!

Well, yes, three hours is too long. However, is it possible that he is trying to access programs over the internet? What I mean is he sure that the program he is trying to run is physically present on his local hard drive (in its entirety)?
If it is on his local drive, then the long load times _may_ be being caused by a hard drive problem. He should run the verify disk and verify permissions checks using Apple's Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). If he finds any problems he should make certain that he has backups of his important data and then run the repair options within Disk Utility. Also make certain that the disk's S.M.A.R.T. status is shown as OK (look at lower right side of window in Disk Utility).
If the disks check okay then he should run Apple's Hardware diagnostics. To do that, shutdown the computer, hold down the "D" key and restart the MacBook (while still holding down on the "D" key). Continue to hold the "D" key down and after a while a window should appear with instructions on how to run the diagnostics (at this time he may, of course, release the "D" key).

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