Spinning wait cursor won't stop

Can anyone help me clear the spinning wait cursor?
After starting up it remains on preventing me from doing anything even accessing the help function.
I have shut down most programmes (on the odd occasion it responds) and tried to access Safari through help and the spinning cursor starts again.
I'm a novice with Mac computers and struggling to find a solution - have had 12 months trouble free computing since switching to a Mac.

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