Spinning icon still spinning

Hello,
My Disk Utility says drive is OK. Next, I tryed reinstalled Tiger 10.4.7
"The machine worked fine before"
Now, my computer does not launch applications. Spinning icon**. My start ups or moving an items or folder are really slow to do, I mean slow**
Any ideas of what is going on.
William

William,
Please do not post in more than one Discussion. I replied to your other post.

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