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Hi there I used Etre to check why my 2013 imac is so painfully slow after updating to mojave. I have been through the usual steps resetting RAM, reinstalling the OS etc as suggesting by apple. Reinstalling the OS seem to help for a few hours and then the iMac slows to an almost grinding halt....can anyone help me interpret the Etre report pasted below...it's not the pro version.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14
You are using a 5400 rpm mechanical drive that by itself is making your Mac slow — and then you are running two anti-virus products on top of that: 1) Symantec's Norton Utilities, and 2) Trusteer. One would be bad enough, and two are the kiss of death on top of that ultra-slow hard drive.
Recommendation:
You are using a 5400 rpm mechanical drive that by itself is making your Mac slow — and then you are running two anti-virus products on top of that: 1) Symantec's Norton Utilities, and 2) Trusteer. One would be bad enough, and two are the kiss of death on top of that ultra-slow hard drive.
Recommendation:
Brilliant thank you..purchased an ssd, updated software, removed trusteer etc ...booting from the ssd (even though through a usb 2 cable at the moment) shows a massive improvement. Just waiting for a kit to arrive to install it now.
thanks again
I've had instances of my Mac running slow. However it's usually caused by CPU hogging apps running in the background. And judging by the report it says you have a LOT of them running, hence it's running very slow. It doesn't help by having only 8GB of memory... near the end of the log it says you have 2.45GB of free RAM left!
Rather than getting an SSD drive, first upgrade your RAM (memory) to 16GB, if that is possible for your iMac - that should be your top priority upgrade. Then the SSD drive.
Also, I suggest you load up an Apple program called 'Activity Monitor' (comes with MacOS), and see what programs are using '%CPU', which should be the second column in the list. Note most apps take up nothing at all, most of the time.
If the program is taking up 50-90% of CPU time, then that is the culprit.
Try booting in safe mode, run a virus check first, then disable as many background applications as possible.
Uninstall Trusteer per their directions , then run etrecheck again to see what chaff it left.
2013 Imac running Mojave....very slow
