WHY is my iMac so slow now? Especially Safari?

Hey
Please please someone help me, i have had my iMac now for two and a half years and its always been fine. Its got 4gb ram and 500gb hard drive.
All of a sudden it just started to slow down, so much that everything freezes.
Safari is so slow especially when trying to playing YouTube videos, when i try and play them the whole machine just freezes!
I updated it to Lion and also took it into my local apple repair shop and they couldnt find anything wrong with it at all!
I transfered like 200gb of data onto an external, that didnt help, repaired permissions and that didnt help. I reset Safari and that didnt help.
Its got so bad that even when i search for something on my Mac e.g. if i type in INVOICE into spotlight search it takes abot 30 seconds to show me anything!
Please someone help, its mainly laggy on Safari 5.1.7 but the whole machine is effected by it!
Please help!

Linc Davis: I have a similar problem and followed your instructions, probably something to do with the Google Chrome issue but I don't know what it means, duh...this is my console text:
ug 14 08:06:35 dan-menitoffs-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction(PrivateMethods) finishAction] KSUpdateCheckAction found updates: {( )}
Aug 14 08:06:35 ds-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KSPrefetchAction performAction] KSPrefetchAction no updates to prefetch.
Aug 14 08:06:35 ds-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSSilentUpdateAction had no updates to apply.
Aug 14 08:06:35 das-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSPromptAction had no updates to apply.
Aug 14 08:06:35 ds-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KSUpdateEngine(PrivateMethods) updateFinish] KSUpdateEngine update processing complete.
Aug 14 08:06:38 ds-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KeystoneDaemon logServiceState] GoogleSoftwareUpdate daemon (1.1.0.3659) vending:\n com.google.Keystone.Daemon.UpdateEngine: 1 connection(s)\n com.google.Keystone.Daemon.Administration: 0 connection(s)
Aug 14 08:07:01 das-imac-5 GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[49838]: -[KeystoneDaemon main] GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon inactive, shutdown.
Aug 14 08:09:58 ds-imac-5 mDNSResponder[16]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Aug 14 08:10:28: --- last message repeated 6 times ---
Aug 14 08:12:49 ds-imac-5 AntiVirus[52]: Maximum real time scanning threads count reached: 4
Aug 14 08:21:54 ds-imac-5 AntiVirus[52]: Maximum real time scanning threads count reached: 4
Aug 14 08:22:24: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Aug 14 08:23:36 ds-imac-5 mDNSResponder[16]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Aug 14 08:24:06: --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Aug 14 08:25:06 ds-imac-5 mDNSResponder[16]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Aug 14 08:25:36: --- last message repeated 11 times ---
Aug 14 08:27:32 ds-imac-5 /usr/sbin/ocspd[49874]: starting
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891599122296:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891614226087:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891614490423:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891615039461:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891615257476:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891615457606:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 d-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807000343:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807206248:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807402894:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807600473:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807797802:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891807994413:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891832140497:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891832357815:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891832560191:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891832756497:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891833000386:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891833216457:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891855273968:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891855493106:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891867769734:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891867981935:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891880705816:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 das-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1216278528:1297891880928212:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1605044448:1297891892438509:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1605044448:1297891892669196:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1605044448:1297891892867933:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:29:34 ds-imac-5 [0x0-0x1b99b98].com.google.Chrome[48650]: [48650:-1605044448:1297891893064625:ERROR:phonenumberutil.cc(1615)] Invalid or unknown region code (ZZ) provided.
Aug 14 08:30:21 ds-imac-5 mDNSResponder[16]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Aug 14 08:30:51: --- last message repeated 6 times ---
Aug 14 08:31:45 ds-imac-5 mDNSResponder[16]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Aug 14 08:32:15: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Aug 14 08:33:09 ds-imac-5 AntiVirus[52]: Maximum real time scanning threads count reached: 4

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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Why is my iMac running slow--??

Hardware Information:
          iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
          iMac - model: iMac13,1
          1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M - VRAM: 512 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          AirPlay: Version: 1.7
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1
System Software:
          OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0 days 0:14:5
Disk Information:
          APPLE HDD ST1000LM024 disk0 : (1 TB)
                    disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (544.74 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Seagate Backup+ Desk 3 TB
                    disk5s1 (disk5s1) <not mounted>: 262 KB
                    Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk5s3) /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive: 3 TB (1.42 TB free)
          Focusrite A.E. Ltd Impulse
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Western Digital Ext HDD 1021 2 TB
                    Elements (disk4s1) /Volumes/Elements 1: 2 TB (21.58 GB free)
          Western Digital External HDD     1 TB
                    Elements (disk3s1) /Volumes/Elements: 1 TB (169.22 GB free)
          Maxtor Corporation Maxtor 3200 320.07 GB
                    BASSLINE Local Disk (disk2s1) /Volumes/BASSLINE Local Disk: 320.07 GB (145.96 GB free)
          Lexmark 2400 Series
          SanDisk Cruzer Edge
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
          Focusrite SAFFIRE_PRO_24 400mbit - 400mbit max
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
                    Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter
Kernel Extensions:
          com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore          (5.2.3)
          com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5          (5.2.3)
          com.Greatdy.driver.SystemAudioCapture          (1.0.0)
          tc.tctechnologies.driver.PaeFireStudio          (4.0.0
          tc.tctechnologies.driver.Saffire          (4.1.2
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.6.6)
          com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard          (5.9.1)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
          [loaded] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist
          [loaded] PACESupport.plist
          [loaded] tc.tctechnologies.PaeFireStudio.plist
          [loaded] tc.tctechnologies.Saffire.plist
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.nike.nikeplusconnect.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
User Login Items:
          MyDriveConnect
          iTunesHelper
          MyTomTomSA
          Dropbox
          Launch Nikon Message Center 2
          TomTomHOMERunner
          NIHardwareAgent
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player
          FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)
          Native Instruments USB Audio
Internet Plug-ins:
          AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101749.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
          Aspera Web 3.1.0.67054.plugin
Bad Fonts:
          None
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 454.61 GB
          Destinations:
                    Seagate Backup Plus Drive [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 3 TB
                    Total number of backups: 81
                    Oldest backup: 2013-02-25 11:58:52 +0000
                    Last backup: 2013-11-07 16:57:40 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 3 TB > (Disk size 999.35 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU:
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          WindowServer
               0%          Activity Monitor
               0%          activitymonitord
               0%          fontd
               0%          MyDriveConnect
               0%          Dropbox
               0%          imagent
Top Processes by Memory:
          180 MB             Safari
          147 MB             WebProcess
          115 MB             Dropbox
          106 MB             mds
          74 MB              Finder
          74 MB              WindowServer
          49 MB              Dock
          41 MB              com.apple.dock.extra
          33 MB              coreservicesd
          25 MB              licenseDaemon
Virtual Memory Statistics:
          5.44 GB            Free RAM
          1.22 GB            Active RAM
          286 MB             Inactive RAM
          1.05 GB            Wired RAM
          321 MB             Page-ins
          0 B                Page-outs

See:
Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
Speeding up Macs,
How to Speed up Macs,
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance,
Mac troubleshooting: What to do when your computer is too slow,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X,
Five Mac maintenance myths and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for information.

Why is my iMac running slow at startup?

I shut down my computer about once a week or so, because I hear that's good for it. But when I start it back up, I might as well go make coffee. If I try using it, all I get are beach balls and HD noise, even though there's 12 GB RAM free during all this , and the CPU is barely using 4%. I suppose it's disk activity? Here's my results from EtreCheck below; I notice Carbonite is still on my system, even though I've removed it. Time Machine is not configured because I use SuperDuper and BackBlaze. The Mac HD is brand new; the last one failed and Apple replaced it.
Problem description:
Slow startup. 16 GB of RAM yet even during the slow startup, 12 GB are free. The CPU runs at 97% idle during the slow startup. What’s causing this?
EtreCheck version: 2.0.4 (89)
Report generated October 16, 2014 at 7:02:18 PM GMT+9
Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac12,1
1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
16 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM1
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 512 MB
iMac 1920 x 1080
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 0:23:21
Disk Information: ℹ️
WDC WD1001FALS-403AA0 disk0 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (455.10 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
I-O DATA DEVICE,INC. HDPG-SU 113.94 GB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
IO DATA (disk1s1) /Volumes/IO DATA : 113.94 GB (169 MB free)
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Applications/Hotspot Shield.app
[not loaded] foo.tun (1.0) Support
/Applications/Toast 7 Titanium/Toast 7 Titanium/Toast Titanium.app
[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (1.4) Support
/Applications/Transmit.app
[not loaded] com.panic.TransmitDisk.transmitdiskfs (4.0.0 - SDK 10.6) Support
/Applications/proXPN.app
[not loaded] foo.tap (1.0) Support
/System/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.1) Support
[loaded] com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer (1.7 - SDK 10.8) Support
[loaded] com.avatron.AVExVideo (1.7 - SDK 10.8) Support
[not loaded] com.caiaq.driver.NIUSBGuitarRigMobileDriver (2.4.23) Support
[not loaded] com.caiaq.driver.NIUSBHardwareDriver (2.4.23) Support
[not loaded] com.flipvideo.IOUSBCameraMassStorage (1.0.1) Support
[loaded] net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio (1.1.0 - SDK 10.8) Support
Startup Items: ℹ️
Privoxy: Path: /Library/StartupItems/Privoxy
Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[invalid?] com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist Support
[invalid?] com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist Support
[running] com.flipvideo.FlipShare.AutoRun.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.machangout.glims.agent.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.backblaze.bzserv.plist Support
[running] com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist Support
[running] com.flipvideo.FlipShareServer.launchd.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[running] com.machangout.glims.loader.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[failed] com.rogueamoeba.hermes.plist Support
[loaded] com.tunnelbear.mac.tbeard.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[running] com.backblaze.bzbmenu.plist Support
[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
iCleanMemory Application (/Applications/iCleanMemory.app)
Dropbox ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Backblaze ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Backblaze.app)
Skitch ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Skitch.app)
PopClip ApplicationHidden (/Applications/PopClip.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
GameTapPlugIn: Version: 1.0 Support
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 Support
OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.3.5f1 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 4.0.51204.0 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 15.0.0.189
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 6.0
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
eMusicRemote: Version: (null) Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.5 - SDK 10.6 Support
JoostPlugin: Version: 0.12.0 Support
eMusic: Version: Unknown
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 Support
Picasa: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.4 Support
Unity Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 1.5.1 Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
Save to Pocket
DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Backblaze Backup Support
DivX Support
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Growl Support
Mycestro Support
Native Instruments USB Audio Support
Perian Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      3% WindowServer
      1% mds_stores
      1% bztransmit
      1% mds
      1% bzfilelist
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
498 MB mds_stores
344 MB bztransmit
344 MB Mail
241 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
206 MB Safari
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
10.60 GB Free RAM
3.68 GB Active RAM
1.10 GB Inactive RAM
1.78 GB Wired RAM
611 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

Follow up: I got rid of the two Carbonite remnants and the failed "Hermes" plist. Restart went faster but it still seems a bit slow.

Seems to be continuously indexing. Why i my iMac so slow?

I just loaded OS X Lion on my iMac, as well as Messenger beta. I can't see why these would affect the machine by indexing since it ran fine before. I have installed the same on both of my other macs with no problem.
It seems this one is indexing almost continously and everything is lagging. The spinning beach ball is a frequent visitor at this point too.
Anyone...?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17785994#17785994

WHY is my iMac so SLOW with my Airport Extreme?!?!?

I have an iMac G5 and an Airport Extreme base station. I just opened Safari on the iMac and in the time it took for it to open the Apple home page I was able to go to my backpack, dig out my HP Netbook, turn it on, log in to Windows, open Safari, and navigate all the way to this page and start typing... and my iMac is STILL trying to load the Apple home page... WHY, APPLE? WHY?? I love my iMac, why won't it work with my Airport Extreme? Everything else I have works fine, in the same locations, and the iMac worked fine when I had a Belkin router... ever since I got this Airport Extreme the iMac has turned into a big white web-surfing glacier. ...Whats's the deal?

Hi,
If you have three or four bars of signal in from the airport it is probably related to the internet cache and not your Airport. But, I also noticed you are using Leopard (the Vista of OSX). Install Onyx and run Automation. Make sure you selct the internet cache in the settings window.
Upgrade to Snow Leopard. It is 30 bucks well spent. Leopard is a monster! Also, as much as I am a macaholic, Google Chrome is a much better browser than Safari.
Onyx - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

Why is the unlock so slow now?

For a week or so (i would guess it coincides with the latest iPod software update) my iPod has been slow to unlock after moving the slider. What used to be almost instant now takes 5-10 seconds. What is going on?
i've already reset the entire iPod and that did not fix it.
also, podcasts are getting lost since the update. they now show up under other in a category that's either blank or just called the wrong thing.
but the unlock is the worst. can anyone help me?

i've already reset the entire iPod and that did not fix it.
If you mean you restored the iPod, that is not the same as a reset.
Try resetting: Hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home button down at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If that doesn't help tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
You won't lose any data as a result of resetting your device.

Why does my imac run slow with mac os x v10.6.7

Since I installed Snow Leopard, our iMac has been freezing up and running slow. Does anyone have any idea about how to fix this?

How full is your disk?
Allan

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