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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stephbakes" data-source="post: 1029724" data-attributes="member: 149883">I am borrowing my mom's one year old iMac 24".  I have had it for about two weeks.  It was running fine, then started running a little slow, then noticeably slow.  Then today I was watching a TV show on Hulu and the screen froze.  I was unable to escape or force quit Safari, so I held down the power button on the back of the iMac until it shut off.  Now when I try to restart it, it takes literaly 20+ minutes to get restarted.  What in the world is wrong?  I tried booting it in safe mode, but it's still taking 20+ minutes to start.  Any suggestions?  Help!  Thank you!P.S. There's plenty of hard drive space.  At least 200gb.</blockquote>

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