What do I need to do if my macbook pro is extremely slow?

I got my macbook pro this past july and for the past week it has been acting extremely slow and I'm not sure what to do. I asked one of my friends with a mac what I should do and she said that I needed to delete my browser history, delete my cookies, and empty my trash can. Well after I did all that it's still being extremely slow and I dont know what to do. I'm supposed to be acceting a call from apple support tonight around 10 but I was wondering if there was anything else that I could do. Any suggestions?

Sorry for the delay. The SUID file thing is something that shows up in
Permissions Repairs you can safely ignore. No need to worry.
Have you tried anything in ds stores tip 2 posts above?
Can you tell us how much RAM (Memory) you have? It's listed by clicking on the  in your title bar....go to About This Mac and it's in the 1st window.
We would also like to know what size hard drive you have and how much free space is on it.
If you click on your Hard drive icon (should be upper right hand corner of your screen), or the Finder in your Dock...when the window opens it says at the bottom how much Free Space you have on your drive.
If you go to the , click on About This Mac, click on More Info... in that window. The next window says how big your hard drive is under Hardware....click on Serial-ATA.....look under Capacity:
We need to know this cause if a hard drive is too full it slows things down and creates operational difficulties.
DALE

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