Mac OS X snow leopard slowdown

[calsci]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)

I have a 2009 MacBook. It is 2ghz and I have 4gb of RAM. My hard drive is still fine. Everytime I click on things I get the spinning pinwheel. some applications have started to refuse to laugh safari and iPhoto won't even come up anymore. All they say is not responding. I already ran onyx. Any idea on anything else I could do to get my computer usable again.

 

[Eldiablojoe]

While my 2009 MB doesn't freeze up as badly as yours, I often get the beachball spinning pinwheel when I'm opening or closing programs or web pages in Safari.

 

[sputacus]

I was able to fix a friend's MBP having similar issues by using DiskWarrior to rebuild its directory. Tech Tools Pro will do the same. If you have access to these utilities, would be worth a try...