Macbook Pro, Excruciatingly Slow

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AJones

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This problem has been persistent for quite some time. Whenever I need to restart, for whatever reason, my computer takes forever to actually boot up. And by forever I mean 7-8 hours.

I hear the chime and the apple doesn't show up for about 5 minutes, then the loading circle takes another 5. I generally have to turn it off and on a bit for it actually to get to the desktop and even then it takes a long time. The desktop takes forever to load and the programs never really respond for 45 minutes or so. And when I do try to open them they immediately stop responding and I get the pinwheel. I've done a clean up with Onyx and it didn't help, I tried repairing disk permissions and still bupkis. I also tried making a new user to see if the problem persisted and it did. So now i'm stuck.

I am really hoping this isn't a hard-drive or memory issue.

Thanks for the help in advance.
 
Those symptoms would seem to indicate a failing hard drive - or, at least a really badly corrupted file system somehow.

What was the result when you tried the hardware test? You can run that from your restore DVD - hold the letter D while you restart to that disk.

If nothing shows up from that test - restart, again with the restore DVD, while holding the letter C. You will boot to the installer, and you want to run Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Try the Repair Disk then. I suspect that you may see serious errors show up.
 
At the moment I can't find my OSX discs so i'm going to have to table that solution for the time being.

Right now my computer is working perfectly. I haven't tried restarting it yet out of fear it won't work.

Only, the only thing is is that when I open itunes everything goes to hell and everything starts slowing down and usually stops responding.

So now i'm just taking wild stab in the dark but it seems itunes is at least a small part in this whole disaster.
 
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