Why is my MacMini running slow after stop using it for while

Hi,
Last night after a year or more I decided to turn-on myMacMini to let my daughter use it and to my surprise it’s running very slow evenwhen just surfing the internet and I know it wasn’t like that in fact this usedto be my primary machine until I bought a MacBook but I used to run Photoshop,Flash, Lightroom etc without any problems, it wasn’t supper fast because thisis a PowerPC MacMini 1.6Hz, 40Gig (50% free space), 1Gig and I’m running Leopard (upgraded fromTiger), but it wasn’t as slow as is right now. I was thinking to reinstallTiger thinking that this is because it’s running Leopard but as I said it wasrunning fine before (with Leopard).
Do I need to reinstall the operating system or start doing adisk repair and see if it helps?
Any Idea what could be wrong?
I know this is not a super machine but as I said this is formy daughter just for surfing the internet.
Thanks a lot!

I don't know what happened but while was trying to do a printscreen pressing shift-command+4 to show the processes I noticed that it wentdown I probably pressed the wrong buttons when trying to do the print-sreen butI don't know which keys I actually pressed, what I did see is that the processthat was taking most of the CPU resources was one called “mds” and I don’t knowwhat it is.
Process Name: User:
mds root
Any idea what could be causing the problem?
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