Very Slow Performance After Failed Bootcamp Install

Hello,
Recently I went through a failed attempt at installing Windows 7 onto my Macbook Pro using boot camp. After this failure I decided to try again another day and used the boot camp assistant to remove the Windows partition.
Ever since doing this, my computer has been running extremely slowly and beach balls on the simplest of tasks. I have tried resetting the SMC and my PRAM all to no avail. I have also used Disk Utility to verify my disk and it says that my disk looks OK.
Has anyone else experienced this/know of any possible fixes?
Thank you for your help!

AKsunshine,
if you boot your MacBook Pro into Safe mode, does it still run extremely slowly when performing the simplest of tasks then?

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