Why my hard drive still works on iMac?

Hello

My drive hard iMac almost always works when I do nothing.

Often accompanied by beachball because it works very slowly on even the easiest things.

I would be grateful for a basic troubleshooting guide. I read about spotlight and email indexing, anyway I can verify if this is the problem?

for example, it took 10 seconds for the box "about this mac" pop up.

2008 iMac, os x El Capitan

Thank you

Alan

also, if anyone can point me to the link 'Search my posts' I would be very grateful. Otherwise, I'm unlikely to find my own post so I can take a day or two to acknowledge all responses.

There used to be a way to post own conclusions, but I don't see it now.

Alan

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