Greetings, All of the other ideas presented are very solid, however the first thing that I would do is get a copy of "Onyx" and run the tab which shows a "Hammer" called Automation. Start with the default settings and if that doesn't speed up your iMac then select all of the items in Automation.
When you are looking for the program "Onyx" be sure to get the one that is for the release of OS X that you are using.] Cheers Harry Freeman San Jose, Ca On Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:38:20 AM UTC-8, ns wrote: > > Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow > down. > > The particulars are: > - late 2006 17" model 5,1 > - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates > - stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full > - 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x 512 MB, so one 512 MB stick was exchanged with > 2 GB stick) > - monitoring active CPU processes doesn't show any process hogging the CPU > beyond a few % (not even M$-related, such as Excel or Word) > > I originally suspected it was Sophos, so removed and downloaded ClamX. > It helped a bit for a while, then it started crawling again. > > Thanks to anyone who can assist with ideas on how to speed this iMac, > which is otherwise running fine. > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
