If you experience an Mac OS X program to freeze and you cannot exit it by clicking quit or using a keyboard shortcut, you can always force it to quit using the Activity Monitor.
If you are the kind of person you want to read what has been changed before updating an app you can disable the auto app update setting. Or enable if you want updates fully automated.
If you want to make a clean install of the new OS X Mavericks or even the older versions of Mac OS X, than I strongly suggest you to create a bootable OS X key or a drive.
Errors on the hard disk on your Mac OS X computer can be the cause why the computer doesn't run as fast as it used to. Let me show you how to check and repair the errors on a disk drive.
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is out and ready for download. If you are willing to invest $20 and an hour of your time to upgrade you Mac computer, you won't be sorry.