Without knowing which mac you have and your hardware specs, it's difficult to give you specific help. You can try the methods from this link >
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/25_ways_speed_your_mac Some of the obvious things you can try are resetting permissions, reduce the number of start up items, delete unnecessary apps and data (especially movies and music), clean caches, history, logs, etc etc. You can use Onyx (free) to do some of this for you, although a lot of this work is already done by the mac itself, but you could tweak the maintenance scripts if you want. There's no guarantee that any of this will help. If your machine is old, it might help to backup all your data on an external drive and clean install the OS, then wean out unnecessary apps and data before putting them back on your machine. If you have a device syncing to iTunes (iphone, ipad), delete apps that you don't use from iTunes on your machine. You can always re-download them for free if you ever need them again. Just as an example, I have almost 200 apps on my iPad, but regularly use only about 30% of them. The rest are taking up unnecessary space on my device and on the computer. On 19-Apr-2012, at 9:55 AM, Cyrus Poncha wrote: > Can you then advise what can be done to spped up the mac. On start up > it takes 10-15secs, something have not been used to. Also when opening > office for mac it takes a few more seconds than used to. > Cyrus Poncha > > On Apr 17, 3:25 pm, Yuti Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do NOT install this software. It is intrusive, constantly throws out >> pop-ups, and does nothing that your mac does not already do its own. If you >> have already installed it, do not use the uninstaller, since it doesn't get >> rid of itself completely, and continues to intrude with messages... Search >> the web for how to remove this software completely. It's advertising >> technique of pushing itself on just about every single webpage is also >> distasteful and does not lend to its credibility. >> >> Regards >> Yuti >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 17-Apr-2012, at 11:00, Siddharth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Dear Friends, >> >>> I find lot of ads of Mackeeper which says "Slow Mac? MacKeeper will safely >>> remove gigabytes of Junk from your Mac" They also claim they will scan for >>> issues and speed up the Mac. Is it advisable to scan our Mac with it. Pls >>> suggest.... >> >>> Warm Regards, >>> Siddharth >> >>> P Help the environment - 3R's (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse) >> >>> -- >>> www.imug.in >> >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] > > -- > www.imug.in > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- www.imug.in To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
