Re: Macbook shows up spinning wheel or freezes frequently

Using Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, select the disk and click on "Repair Disk Permissions". Wait for it to complete and see if that helps things. Another thing to try is to boot from the OS DVD and under Utilities > Disk Utility select the disk and click on Repair Disk. This should also help improve performance. There are other things to try, but this is a good starting place.

[quote|Sarabian]Using Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, select the disk and click on "Repair Disk Permissions". Wait for it to complete and see if that helps things. Another thing to try is to boot from the OS DVD and under Utilities > Disk Utility select the disk and click on Repair Disk. This should also help improve performance. There are other things to try, but this is a good starting place.[/quote]