Spinning ball on Mac Flat Panel

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dpg999

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I have a 700 MHz iMac flat panel with 1 GB SDRAM and running OS 10.4.11. Almost every time I go to do something, I get the spinning ball and have to wait before it performs the action. I even get the ball briefly when I click OK on a dialogue box. I have run the disk utility to repair disk permissions several times, but that doesn't seem to help. What can I do to get the Mac to run faster as it used to do?
 
Is disk utility able to verify no problems or able to repair the issues or does it error out without repairing?
 
It repairs everything that needs repairing and doesn't error out. Is there any other way of "defragging" as the PC's do? what about removing fonts from the system?
 
Might be a hosed directory structure which disk utility will not always see and/or fix. You can try DiskWarrior or else backup important files and do an archive and install. Did you try permissions repair or safe boot? How about logging into a different user?
 
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