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Tune up your Mac here

Last modified: Jul 21, 2013 4:04 AM
0 16303 Last modified Jul 21, 2013 4:04 AM

Welcome to my User Tip.



One of our regulars here created a nifty little program to give us more experienced users a insight into your Mac and what's going on with it.


What you do is run this little program and paste the results to a forum post and ask others to assist.


The program will strip out personal data, but look it over to make sure anyway.


10.8 users may have to head to System Preferences > Security > General and "Allow Downloads from Anywhere" temporarily to accept software from the web or they can hold Control key or right clicking on the Etresoft software to run it.


It doens't need to be installed or uses the Admin password, so you can delete it afterwards if you wish by dragging it to the Trash can.



http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck



Here is a sample output


Hardware Information:

27" iMac (Mid 2010)

27" iMac with widescreen LED display, introduced mid 2010.

iMac - model: iMac11,3

1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

12 GB RAM


Video Information:

ATI Radeon HD 5750 - VRAM: 1024 MB


Startup Items:

HWNetMgr - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr

HWPortDetect - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect

StartOuc - Path: /Library/StartupItems/StartOuc


System Software:

OS X 10.8.3 (12D78) - Uptime: 5 days 13:51


Disk Information:

WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0 disk0 : (1 TB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Lakshmi (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (584.66 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB


OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H

USB Information:

Apple Inc. iPhone

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

LaCie LaCie Hard Drive USB

Brother QL-570

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:


Kernel Extensions:


Problem System Launch Daemons:


Problem System Launch Agents:


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.barebones.textwrangler.plist

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist


Launch Agents:


User Launch Agents:


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Flip4Mac WMV


Internet Plug-ins:

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

net.juniper.DSSafariExtensions.plugin

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:


Bad Fonts:

None


Top Processes by CPU:

11% screensharingd

6% mds

3% WindowServer

1% EtreCheck

0% warmd

0% ouc

0% SystemUIServer

0% mDNSResponder

0% imagent


Top Processes by Memory:

221 MB mds

197 MB Safari

147 MB coreservicesd

140 MB Finder

123 MB WindowServer

74 MB CVMCompiler

74 MB Dock

61 MB screensharingd

61 MB Dropbox

49 MB CalendarAgent


Virtual Memory Statistics

Free: 8.07 GB

Active: 2.18 GB

Inactive: 679 MB

Wired: 1.09 GB

Page-ins: 3.95 GB

Page-outs: 0 B


Look forward to seeing you soon! 🙂




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