Slow and problems opening programs

Just installed Lion 3 days ago and its loads and runs very slow. Don't understand why.
Secondly when i go to Safari it will not go to the home page when I open, it goes to the last page I was in when i was browsing. Same with with Excel, word, etc. It opens the last document I close when i load the program
thanks for any suggestions
tim

Timothy Kavulla wrote:
... Same with with Excel, word, etc. It opens the last document I close when i load the program
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