Reformatting my macbook pro

[BOOSTD]

hello all,

over the past few months, I have noticed that my macbook has been slowing down a lot. Opening programs has taken longer, opening files (esp office files, idk why), finder is slower, etc. Its almost like the hard drive need to be de-fragged, though I know OSX de-fraggs on the fly. Is a reformat in order or are there other culprits for my slowing mac?

any suggestions would be appreciated.

BOOSTD

 

[creator2456]

What are your specs? How much free space does the HD have?

Could it just be you got used to the speed of OS X and it just seems slower??

 

[rychencop]

how much ram also? mine got much speedier with an xtra 2Gb's.