iMac Problems

[kingshrubb]

I started using my iMac today (not this gen the last gen) and it was fine yesterday but today it has been extremely slow. Its only a year old and now its suddenly taking 30 seconds to open up Finder and Mail and Chrome take a long time to start up. Also I noticed that the 3 buttons (red, orange, and green) at the top left of every window are grayed out.
Do I have to make a Genius bar appointment or is there something I can do on my end to fix this perhaps?

Thanks guys!

 

[stridemat]

Boot off your OS X disks and try repairing permissions.

 

[Hellhammer]

Have you tried rebooting it? Ran Disk Utility? PRAM and SMC resets?

 

[kingshrubb]

Have you tried rebooting it? Ran Disk Utility? PRAM and SMC resets?

I've tried rebooting it. How do I reset pram and smc? Can you give me some steps please. Thank you very much for your help both of you it is much appreciated.

 

[Hellhammer]

I've tried rebooting it. How do I reset pram and smc? Can you give me some steps please. Thank you very much for your help both of you it is much appreciated.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

You can run Disk Utility from the install disc as mentioned above

 

[stridemat]

PRAM

SMC

 

[kingshrubb]

The SMC reset fixed it right away. Thanks all!