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Computer is VERY slow to boot up and function. I can boot up and computer works quickly in safe boot. I ran Disk Utility and no problems found.

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I having a problem on imac upon booting up going to display the desktop icons is to slow that takes 5 minutes at blue screen display at monitor atfer the display of gray apple appears on the screen......


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There are a couple of things to look at. One is your login items. Open the System Preferences, and select accounts. Then select your account name from the list on the left, and the "Login Items" panel on the right. This is a list of every application that is loading upon login. You may not need them all. iTunesHelper is a common login item, and is not causing your problem, most likely.
The other thing to try is looking at the Activity Monitor. It is located in the Utilities folder of the Application folder. Launch this and click the CPU column to sort the processes by CPU usage. something may be hogging the cpu.
Now, there are some process that periodically may hog cpu, and you just have to wait. These may include Spotlight (smm) and Time Machine. You may just have to wait for them to quit. Any process assigned to "root" (or anything other than your username) is risky to quit. Any other process that seems to be hogging cpu that is assigned to your user is fair game to quit.
If you see something hogging the cpu, that belongs to you, that you don't know what it is, please post the Process Name. If you know what it is, then you could decide to uninstall that.

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Try to repair using CD Installer. or maybe it have a virus in your computer

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

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