replacement of my user account

A genius on the Apple store recommended I have create a new main user account and empty the former, in order to escape a lot of general slowness that is limited to my main user account. He didn't tell me exactly how to proceed. My question is how to ensure that the new user has access to all my documents, music, photos, and applications, while leaving behind any corrupt software slowing down my computer.

Migration Assistant that?

The slowness is particularly noticeable when searching - in the Finder, Spotlight and especially by post. I tried to Spotlight stop indexing and then re - index, several times. The computer can get sluggish in many functions of Finder as well.

OS X 10.9.5

Mini 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 8GB / 500 GB (290 free)

External hard drive 500 GB (150 free)

User account - add new Admin

User account - two handset

User account - copy files between accounts

The user account - data migration

User account - Rebuild

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