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I am using 8Gb on the HD with 20Gb unused. So it can't be that. I take the point about the older computer. It's 500Mhz and 10.4.5 may be a challenge, but 1 minute to open some one page files is ridiculous.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'll try to cover each. I try to maintain and I restart when I strike problems. I downloaded Onyx. Looks excellent. I ran everything that looked reasonable under 'Maintanance', 'Cleaning' etc. I restarted a few times as it requested. An hour later I...

I'm getting very acquainted with the spinning rainbow. It can take a minute or two just to open or edit a file. I can't get work done. OS 10.4.5 Graphite iMac. Appleworks 6. Please keep answers simple like me.