Hi Chris, A few things to help you speed up your MBP.
1. Keep the desktop clean: If you have a lot of files on the desktop your Mac will slow down. Tidy up those files by placing them in folders and the Finder will be snappier 2. Slim down the contents of your hard drive: If your hard drive is nearly full, your Mac will run more slowly. Archive or trash old files you no longer need. 3. Check login items: Background applications and processes can slow down your Mac. Open the Accounts system preference, select your account, and click the Login Items button to take a gander at what’s slated to run at startup. Do you need everything it lists? If not, delete the unnecessary items. 4. Check Activity Monitor: Launch Activity Monitor (found in /Applications/Utilities), choose My Processes from the pop-up menu at the top of the window, and click the %CPU heading. Look at the top several items. This tells you what’s drawing most of your Mac’s attention. Are there items there that you can do without? 5. Quit applications: Per the last suggestion, it’s very easy to run multiple applications on your Mac. But perhaps there are more running than you need. Look in the Dock. If you see scads of applications with little blue dots beneath their icons (indicating that they’re active), quit those you aren’t planning to use in the near future. 6. Restart your browser and clear its cache: Browsers are notorious for slowing down after they’ve been running for a long time. If you find that your Web surfing has been reduced to dog-paddling, quit and restart your browser. If it’s still slow, clear its cache. In Safari choose Safari -> Empty Cache. In Firefox choose Firefox -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network and click the Clear Now button. 7. Restart your Mac every so often: Like battery-sponsored bunnies, a Mac running OS X can stay on its feet seemingly forever. Launch Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities) and enter uptime. You’ll learn how long your Mac has been running since the last reboot. If it’s been trotting along for weeks, restarting it may afford it the opportunity to flush out some old junk that’s slowing it down. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 29/10/2012, at 5:08 AM, Chris Burton <c...@it.net.au> wrote: > Good morning muggers > > My Macbook Pro (10.6.8 2.2 GHz i7 8GB) has recently begun to slow in > repsonsiveness to key strokes in apps and finder. It is starting to worry me. > > I did check out the Apple Support link that Ronni supplied regarding the > Powerup problem that Paul experienced which gave me something to look at. > I did some searches and found a few discussions that speak of using the > Activity monitor. > > I have opened the Activity monitor and now am not sure what to look at or do? > There is lots of things going on! > > Can someone please advise on what actions I can do to improve the performance > of my Mac? > > Thankyou for any assistance > > Kind regards > > Chris > > > Christopher L.K. Burton > Director > Western Whale Research > PO Box 1076 > Dunsborough WA 6281 > Mobile: 0419 199 120 > Email: c...@it.net.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121029/01c62a9d/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
