My computer wakes up slowly from sleep

Hi! Check your energy saver prefs. Sounds like you have your hard drives set to sleep. Set them to sleep never and see if it helps. Tom

Hi! Click on the spotlight icon in the top right hand corner of the screen and see if it is indexing the drive which can really slow things down. Also try leaving it on 24/7 for a few days to see if it clears out any temp files that may be slowing it down. Also Time Machine will also slow it down until the first backup is complete. Tom

Hello Again! When you click on Spotlight you should only see the word Spotlight and then a blank white space next to the word where you can enter a search word. If you see anything below that it is indexing the drive. Tom

Hi! The activity monitor in apps>utilities>activity monitor will show you the processes that are active. Also the hard drive should be at least 10-20% free and a nearly full HD will slow things down. Also attached hard drives that have to spin up will also slow it down. Tom

Hi! One other thing we didn't talk about is the processor speed. How fast is it? And also you could have a hard drive that is slower than 7200rpm so you might open the computer and check the hard drive speed. Tom

Hello Rajiv,

When Thomas wrote:

Also try leaving it on 24/7 for a few days to see if it clears out any temp files that may be slowing it down.

that means "on" and "not sleeping." OSX has periodic maintenance scripts that key off your system clock to run daily, weekly, and monthly. They are programmed to run in the wee hours of the morning local time, a time when most computers are off or asleep. Thus many Macs seldom have the scripts properly run.

This article tells how to run the scripts manually:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html