iMac Slowing Down

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After years of hearing gripes about WinDoze, I finally talked my nephew and his wife into buying an iMac. After 2 years, it's running really slow. I cleaned out the cache and it now cleans the cache and history after juse one day. However, when they go to a URL, it still chugs and has the spinning beach ball on the screen for a pretty good time.

What else can I do that will help speed it up? Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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billwill said:
After years of hearing gripes about WinDoze, I finally talked my nephew and his wife into buying an iMac. After 2 years, it's running really slow. I cleaned out the cache and it now cleans the cache and history after juse one day. However, when they go to a URL, it still chugs and has the spinning beach ball on the screen for a pretty good time.

What else can I do that will help speed it up? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Run disk repair w/ the disk utility - that may help. Might also want to look into disk defragmentation. If those both don't help, upgrading to an SSD would def. increase the speed:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-desktops/266837-old-imac-new-life.html
 

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