Rainbow wheel when open activity monitor

hello, my laptop has been working fine, up until a month it's a bit slow when opening applications...but now, as i started reading, i can check the processes on the memory by checking the activity monitor...but when i open it, it only shows the beach ball of death...and i have to close it by force quitting it...any ideas? thanks

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If you have hard drive corruption that requires a repair every third day you most likely have some hardware acting up. Bad RAM is the usual cause or your hard drive is failing.
I would try running the extended version of your Apple Hardware Test.
It's not perfect but may flag something.
A more thorough test for RAM is the free Rember.
Use the extended test also.
Here's a nice faq on RAM testing.
I don't use Drive genius. I've owned another utility for years.
The only one I would recommend is DiskWarrior. It is the best at directory repairs. It rebuilds then actually replaces your old directory. I feel every Mac owner should have a copy.
It also has File System repair now and hard drive S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics.
I use DW once a month to try and catch errors in my system from getting too far out of hand. It has repaired every little and big issue I have ever had with my three Macs.
I'm not saying Drive Genius is not up to par...wouldn't know, I just have had such great success with DW that I see no need to use another utility.
DALE

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