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I have a newer iMac that is operating very slowly. It takes several minutes to load any program/app following sleep mode. Then the operation is slow if it works at all. If it is just turned on it takes an equally long time to power on but the apps run fine. I am not sure even the first step in remedying this situation.
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.14
How new is it?
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
You can save us asking dozens of questions by submitting a report from this App for us to look at…
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…
Whew, they've changed pastebin & made it harder, but after pasting in, click Create new paste button, then Embed button, then copy the URL...
<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA"></script>
The important part is...
https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA
Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
How new is it?
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
You can save us asking dozens of questions by submitting a report from this App for us to look at…
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…
Whew, they've changed pastebin & made it harder, but after pasting in, click Create new paste button, then Embed button, then copy the URL...
<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA"></script>
The important part is...
https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA
Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
I bought it within the last year or so. In safe mode it does not freeze up but still takes a while for programs to load. I noticed another thing, that start up in regular mode can take a long time (3 minutes or more). Upon reboot it seems to be working better than before.
It worked in safe mode much bette without freezing up but still slow. Once rebooted it seems to start up very slowly, over 3 minutes, and then programs opened faster but froze when inactivity was greater than couple of minutes or so. Switching web sites is also extremely slow, much more so than older devises we have.
Here it is..
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251675369
Adware - Adware detected. Use etrecheck to remove those.
Any luck yet?
We may be able to help if you post an etrecheck report. :)
If you don't want to show us an etrecheck report, have Apple look at it.
I did post the question with a copy of the report. It was not in this thread I guess. I’ll try to copy the report into this thread.
new imac very slow loading programs particularly if left on following sleep mode
