Why is my new Mac running so slow?

I have just purchased a new Mac desktop...and am loving it so far. However, after some photos were added to it off and external hard drive, it seems to be SO slow.
Aslo, I cannot open any PDF files anymore...I've installed Adobe Reader, but what comes up from the download is garbled.
If you can help, I'd be so grateful...I'm really new to Mac.
Thank you,
Ally

Hello & welcome Ally!
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
Any change?
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.

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