iMac "cleaning"

[airforce]

Hi,

I have had my iMac G5 for a little over a year now and have never "cleaned" it out except for the deletion of no longer used programs, photos, e-mails etc....I have Mac Janitor installed and run it weekly and monthly.  I have a feeling that my Mac is getting slower and slower and I suspect that I may have accumulated a whole bunch of data which should/could be deleted....

...the question is "How ?"....

...Any suggestions ?  Would appreciate your thoughts/previous knowledge on this matter - - - freebies and otherwise.

Thanks

Airforce

[MacMoore]

I use Applejack.  It's free and it has produced great improvements for me.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

[z-mac]

I have a feeling that my Mac is getting slower and slower

Which operations or applications are seeming slower to you? How much free space do you have on the disk?

[airforce]

Sorry about the delay...

My Cap is 233.6 GB and I have 194.6 available.  It also shows I have 430,092 files and 109,719 folders !!!!!  Is that reason to be scared ???

Slow apps for instance are going to Firefox....I can count from "1000" to sometimes "1006" after I select its icon before it actually comes up....there are a couple of others like that....is that reasonable ?  Am I so used to speed that this seems slow ?  ...

or do I need to clean up the system....I downloaded the Applejack as suggested but it stays on my desktop and won't load.

Thanks.