The rainbow wheel keeps spinning and my computer is super slow

my computer is very slow trying to open any applications and the rainbow wheel keeps spining. How can I fix this?

You didn't even tell us what iMac you have (late 2009 is not a very good description) nor do we know what version of OS X it is running. Without the minimum of information it's tough to troubleshoot.

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