Mac Slowing down
Hi!
I've had the black macbook for about a year and a few months now, after getting it as a present for college. Lately, I've noticed that it has slowed down a bit, like when I first turn it on, it takes forever to go to the users box. It slowly changes the blue color, before finally going into the colorful display with the user box so that I can type in my password. Sometimes, when I type in my password it takes a few minutes for the display bar to pop up, and everything to load. Yesterday, I tried to quit an application, but it took five tries for me to be able to quit it, even with force quit.
I nearly don't have anything on here, except a few documents, music from Itunes and my own recorded music on garageband...all of which I keep backed up in an external drive. As for being dropped (because I did here there had been some issues with the hard drive not being stable), it was knocked off the table once, by my roommate, but not from very high up.
I was thinking of re-installing everything on the laptop, but I really don't want to go through that, seeing as the school year has began, and I need the laptop.
What is going on? And is there anything that I can do to fix it?
I greatly appreciate your help.
I've had the black macbook for about a year and a few months now, after getting it as a present for college. Lately, I've noticed that it has slowed down a bit, like when I first turn it on, it takes forever to go to the users box. It slowly changes the blue color, before finally going into the colorful display with the user box so that I can type in my password. Sometimes, when I type in my password it takes a few minutes for the display bar to pop up, and everything to load. Yesterday, I tried to quit an application, but it took five tries for me to be able to quit it, even with force quit.
I nearly don't have anything on here, except a few documents, music from Itunes and my own recorded music on garageband...all of which I keep backed up in an external drive. As for being dropped (because I did here there had been some issues with the hard drive not being stable), it was knocked off the table once, by my roommate, but not from very high up.
I was thinking of re-installing everything on the laptop, but I really don't want to go through that, seeing as the school year has began, and I need the laptop.
What is going on? And is there anything that I can do to fix it?
I greatly appreciate your help.
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
