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- Oragnize your desktop icons. Make them lesser and simpler to access. Avoid too many icons on desktop. This would also add glow to the look and feel of the Mac.
- Clear out unneccessary login items because they slow up the system while booting. Navigate to System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items to clear login itmes.
- Trash: Don't allow the trashed files to enjoy vacations in trash-bin folder. Empty it & make it a habit of emptying the trash.
- If not used then turned of Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, Internet Sharing & universal Access.
- Universal Binary: If you have Intel based Mac, then there is no need for binary files that support PPC based files. Remove unnecessary binary files from Mac.
- Clear out Caches & Logs files
- Find & Wipe duplicate files and folders.
- Delete uncessary language packs: Delete all unncessery languages other than your default language like English.
- Uninstall apps that are useless to you or not being accessed.
- Uninstall unwanted widgets as they tend to occupy disks space while operating.
- Add more RAM the the existing Mac.
- Use free utility like Onyx.
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Do-It-Yourself tips to fasten a slow Mac
The famous proverb 'Slow & Steady wins the race' does not apply to machines and especially Macs. A Mac has to be faster, quicker and high on performance. That is how Macs are supposed to be. But with time and usage any machine, even a Mac hard drive can go slow. But there are few practical tips available which if practised can assure to regain the lost speed & performance of the Mac OS X. Here the tips are:
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If I may add one more to the list:
I own a first-generation MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo processor (predecessor of the Dual Core CPUs), and after maximizing the RAM and reinstalling the OS with minimum options, the addition of an SSD drive was definitively what brought it back to life. 128GB ones are so cheap nowadays that it was a worthy investment.
Alejandro Ramirez
Digital Photography Club Administrator
The tips are useful but for small amount of data and may not be practical when a hard drive is neglected for years leading to accumulation of huge amount of garbage data in it. You need to use a free tool like onyx or stellar speedup mac which is a shareware to clean a hard drive having gbs of junk data. Because if you go manually then it may consume a lot of time & effort. But for small amount of data size stored on hard drive I would prefer the above tips.
@ajms:
Mac users having heavy apps like photoshop, video editing software etc. would prefer to choose tool because it will take less time to wipe out the trash data from the Mac hard drive & corresponding volumes. But users having less apps & data can follow the tips & wipe trash data & app manually. |
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