OS Lion SLOW down

Installed and then reinstalled OS lion on the advice of APPLA techie. It has made no difference. I have a iMac new in March 2011 w/4GB of ram. Supposedly enough to tun the program.

I can't run mail and safari at the same time. I can go get coffee in the next room and a page is still loading. i called the phone company and had them check the speed and functionality of my connection. I have fibre optic. I have loaded all the updates and uninstalled (properly) all old software, updated everything else and I still spend forever moving from window to window. Opening iPhoto takes an act of Congress.

I have pages of code that I sent Apple and the best I get is oh it is so much fast than Snow Leopard. REALLY not in my world. I am now a week to a deadline and can't upload the graphics I need printed.

Any suggestions?

start by checking Console in your Utilities Folder, there is a good chance something is screaming into there.

Another person without a full backup to re install???

I am having same issue after Lion install yesterday. Lots of spinning wheels. how do I read Console? Also, am I only person who is having trouble adjusting to scrolling in opposite direction to what trackpad used to do? Why would they not keep it native to original?

In Utilities > Console, see whats posting messages to the Console Log and let us know.

No, the scrolling does take a bit of getting used too. But after a month I hardly notice and I've been working with the mouse since 1984.

The reason is it now works like the "real" world, you push things away and drag them towards you. Its even more natural with the Trackpad.

Here is screen shot of most recent activity. Things getting worse. Apps freezing. I cant force quit but have to power down manually....thank you

screen shot attempt again

You might be stopping Spotlight from finishing it's indexing by shutting it down all the time. Then when you log in again it see's it needs doing and starts again. That is amazingly long and CPU intensive, but it doesn't normally beach ball.

The other thing to check is Activity Monitor and see whats taking all the CPU cycles. Again it is in your Utilities Folder. Sort by CPU column and see what keeps jumping to the top of the list.

Hello: Thank you. I am attaching one image of AM...it shows Dashboard and Dock at top alot. I do not know what the spell, pboard, daemon etc items are...

You've got that column sorted the wrong way up, that's the ones taking the less CPU cycles. Click the Header again.

I click real mem ? Here it is...still have app lock and spinning...and browser just quit unexpectedly attaching image
Thank you