Why has my MacBook response time slowed to, at best, a crawl?

Long ago I added available RAM, I continually delete unused apps, trash and other files. Ran virus protection software. No error messages. When I have the OS and any browser open, trying to open almost anything results only in the spinning colored disc response. Even to stop that and continue now take tens of mins or even closing down computer. What should I look for to deal with this situation?

Woe is me. Took it into Apple Store and Genius had to erase the hard drive and restore what was available from the Apple sites. I do have a backup of some of my data on Carbonite, but that too is problematic since I cannot get on my account due to changing my login informatiion in a way that seems to have left my account lost to me. Guess some of my photos and videos are lost for good since I do not think I specified that they should be backed up. I am wondering why, of all things, the user has to specify backing up of photos and videos since those are often the most important and irreplacable files on the computer. Fortunately, the best, older ones should be on DVD backups.

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MacBook Pro running slow
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
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