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“Mac slow? 6 tips to go faster

by Meggie on May.27, 2011, under windows news

"Mac slow? 6 tips to go faster

Mac OS X operating system is a very quick , gets along very well with the hardware that comes pre-installed and just causes problems. Until they occur. The first time you turn on your Mac flying, immediately lit up and faded just as fast but HAD multiple windows open. But those days are past and now part of your Mac starts to limp. What is the solution?

The services you will use Windows to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Mac OS X, but need not be so drastic. You do not have to defragment the disk.

We give you six tips to put your Mac on a diet and running as fast as the first day .

Maintenance Scripts

The maintenance scripts Mac OS X, UNIX heritage, are routine tasks that the system automatically, provided you have the Mac on to the ungodly hour at which these tasks are activated.

Hand To enable maintenance scripts have two options:

* Run from the Terminal . Open the Mac OS X Terminal and type the command sudo periodic will daily weekly monthly . When finished, again see the prompt in the terminal.

* Run with the help of an application . Onyx is best known, among other things allows you to activate these scripts. You can also use simple applications like MainMenu or Maintenance .

After this maintenance task, restart the computer. Better now? No? Try the following advice.

Repair Permissions

Permissions in Mac OS X are important . Of them depend on a file or folder are accessible by particular application or system process. Some misconfigured permissions can slow down your computer.

The solution is to run Repair Permissions , available in Disk Utility . You will place you in the hard disk where you installed Mac OS X and select this option. Depending on the size of the disk, the process will take more or less. Try not to perform any tasks at the same time, thus preventing the repair is unsuccessful.

After this maintenance task, restart the computer. Better now? No? Try the following advice.

Login items

As in Windows, have many applications or processes running when you turn the system can slow it down. Moreover, in many cases these processes are not relevant and useful.

Before deleting anything, make sure the file or process in question is not useful and it does not depend on the proper operation of other applications. A Google search will help you determine the usefulness of each item.

There are two ways to clean boot Items:

* From System Preferences> Accounts . Log into your account and navigate to Start . Look at the list of items displayed. Do you belong to uninstalled applications that have believed? Hard to them!

* From the Finder, you have to go to Library> StartupItems . You’ll find this folder as the root path (/) as in your user.

After this maintenance task, restart the computer. Better now? No? Try the following advice.

Hidden temporal …

The supporting files for your applications, such as caches, preferences, history, temporary files, etc. can cause problems if they become corrupted. Removing them may get some progress.

You can search by hand. You’ll find them in your user folder> Library> Preferences . Please note that your application will eliminate the first day, so you have to reconfigure it.

Another alternative is to run the cleanup of Onyx .

If you do not use it, throw it

Another tip is common sense that if you do not use a particular application, the uninstall. It occupies a space occupying precious and valuable system resources.

To uninstall these applications need a tool like the ones we offer here .

Slimming applications

"Mac OS X is slow? Do not panic. We still have tricks up its sleeve. On this occasion, we’ll try to slim down any applications you have installed.

By default, within the application files are to operate in multiple languages and architectures.

As we do not need all we can eliminate some with the help of applications such as Monolingual , Trimmit or Xslimmer .

After performing the above steps your computer should work as well as the first day. Do you have served these tips? What are your tricks to keep clean Mac OS X?

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