Your friend MIGHT be right about the temp folders, but I very seriously doubt it. The usual culprit there is that you're running out of available RAM because some program or process is "leaking" and needing progressively more RAM the longer you leave it on. Eventually the system starts to use Virtual Memory (disk space) for the RAM and that's when things get sllllooooowww.From: "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was talking to someone recently about all my Macs (iMac FP 1GHz, AlBook 1GHz and MDD 2x1GHz) seemingly getting slower and slower.
You can check your available RAM by simply using a free utility like "Free RAM" or by checking the stats in the Activity Monitor (which is in your Utilities folder). If it's low, a reboot should solve the problem at least for a while.
Another workaround is to get out of the habit of leaving programs open in the background. Many people (particularly PC switchers) think that if you close all the windows in a program, you've closed the program. By and large, that's not true on a Mac. So the programs are still hanging open out there, using up RAM that could be reclaimed.
Are there any maintenance steps like this to keep the system running as fast as it should (without having to reinstall) ???
Other things you should be doing:
1. Run OnyX (a free utility) about once a month to clear caches, delete excess VM files, update/rotate logs, etc.
2. Repair permissions from within Disk Utility every now and again.
_Chas_
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I have an iMac 400 MHz with 768 MB RAM and a v. 90 modem running Mac Open Step X.3.7. It is very slow when I use it on the Internet. I normally use an old 7500 at 500 MHz with 176 MB RAM with a v.92 modem with Macintosh 8.6. Why is Mac Open Step so slow?
James
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