Beach ball at login

[Mdv2]

A few weeks ago I installed ML on my Macbook Unibody Late 2008. Initially, it worked all fine but now I every time get to see a beach ball at the login screen after start up or sleep.

Could it be some application that is set to launch at startup? If so, how to figure?

 

[GGJstudios]

Could it be some application that is set to launch at startup? If so, how to figure?

Delete any occurrences of unwanted apps from the following locations:

• System Preferences > Accounts > yourusername > Login Items
  (Lion and ML users: System Preferences > Users & Groups > yourusername > Login Items)
  
  
• /Library/LaunchAgents/
  (Lion and ML users: In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > then enter the path above)
  
  
• ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
  (Lion and ML users: In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > then enter the path above)
  
  
• /Library/StartupItems/
  (Lion and ML users: In Finder, click Go > Go to Folder > then enter the path above)

 

[Mdv2]

Thanks for the help; I deleted some old junk, but no change. Any other ideas?

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks for the help; I deleted some old junk, but no change. Any other ideas?

If you're having performance issues, this may help:

Performance Tips For Mac OS X​

Follow every step of the following instructions precisely. Do not skip any steps.

1. Launch Activity Monitor
2. Change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes"
3. Click on the "% CPU" column heading once or twice, so the arrow points downward (highest values on top).
   (If that column isn't visible, right-click on the column headings and check it, NOT "CPU Time")
4. Click on the System Memory tab at the bottom.
5. Take a screen shot of the entire Activity Monitor window, then scroll down to see the rest of the list, take another screen shot
6. Post your screenshots.