Mac is running very slow

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Mac is running very slow

Hello all, up to a few days ago my Mac would take about 3-5 mins to boot up and load. With that it used to perform very well, open multiple browser tabs and open multiple apps with pretty good performance.

But recently it got drastically slower, takes a much much longer time to boot up and to just load the browser takes more than 5 mins and everything is incredibly slow.

i cleared the system cache, deleted startup programs and cleared up programs running in the background but this only helped minimally.

what else can I do????

2011 MacBook Pro

2.3 GHz i5

8 gigs Ram

100 gigs free hard drive

Posted on Dec 20, 2018 5:32 PM

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BobTheFisherman

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Dec 20, 2018 5:43 PM in response to sthprk321

Some options:

You can uninstall all third party apps that claim to protect, clean, boost performance, etc.

You can remove all adware and malware.

You can increase your RAM to 16GB.

You can replace your HDD with a SSD.

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Dec 21, 2018 2:57 PM in response to sthprk321

Post an etrecheck report so that we may try to see what is contributing to your issue.

MalwareBytes for Mac is often recommended here for removing malware.

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sthprk321 Author

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Dec 21, 2018 12:38 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

What app would you recommend to get rid of malware and adware?

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