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Macbook pro 2018 is too slow

EtreCheckPro version: 6.5.6 (6F041) Report generated: 2022-02-21 16:34:41 Download EtreCheckPro from https://etrecheck.com Runtime: 3:34 Performance: Good Problem: Computer is too slow Major Issues: Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. Battery failure - Your battery is reporting that it needs to be serviced. Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed that could be adware and should be reviewed. Minor Issues: These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found. Apps with heavy CPU usage - There have been numerous cases of apps with heavy CPU usage. Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed. Apple has said that unsigned software will not run by default in a future version of the operating system. System modifications - There are a large number of system modifications running in the background. x86-only Apps - This computer has x86-only apps might not work on future versions of the operating system. Limited drive access - More information may be available with Full Drive Access. Kernel extensions present - This computer has kernel extensions that may not work in the future. Hardware Information: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) MacBook Pro Model: MacBookPro15,1 2,9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9 (i9-8950HK) CPU: 6-core 32 GB RAM - Not upgradeable BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0 - 16 GB DDR4 2400 BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0 - 16 GB DDR4 2400 Battery: Health = Service Battery - Cycle count = 640 Video Information: Intel UHD Graphics 630 - VRAM: 1536 MB Color LCD (built-in) 3840 x 2400 Radeon Pro 560X - VRAM: 4 GB Drives: disk0 - APPLE SSD AP1024M 1.00 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) Internal PCI-Express 8.0 GT/s x4 NVM Express disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 315 MB disk0s2 [APFS Container] 680.00 GB disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 680.00 GB (Shared by 6 volumes) disk1s1 - M******************s (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (Shared - 577.60 GB used) disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 272 MB used) disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 1.09 GB used) disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 20 KB used) disk1s5 (APFS) [APFS Container] (Shared - 21.26 GB used) disk1s5s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) [APFS Snapshot] (Shared - 21.26 GB used) disk1s6 - Update (APFS) (Shared - 107 MB used) disk0s3 - B******P 319.66 GB (260.04 GB used) disk0s4 577 MB Mounted Volumes: disk0s3 - B******P 319.66 GB (260.04 GB used, 59.62 GB free) Mount point: /Volumes/B******P disk1s1 - M******************s [APFS Virtual drive] 680.00 GB (Shared - 577.60 GB used, 81.37 GB available, 79.49 GB free) APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Data Encrypted disk1s2 - Preboot [APFS Preboot] 680.00 GB (Shared - 272 MB used, 79.49 GB free) APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Preboot disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] 680.00 GB (Shared - 20 KB used, 79.49 GB free) APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/VM disk1s5s1 - Macintosh HD [APFS Snapshot] 680.00 GB (Shared - 21.26 GB used, 81.37 GB available, 79.49 GB free) APFS Mount point: / Read-only: Yes disk1s6 - Update 680.00 GB (Shared - 107 MB used, 79.49 GB free) APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Update Network: Interface usbserial-144440: Single RS232-HS Interface usbserial-143440: Single RS232-HS 2 Interface usbserial-142440: Single RS232-HS 3 Interface en0: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge Interface en7: Thunderbolt Ethernet Slot 1 Interface en9: USB 10/100/1000 LAN Interface en6: iPhone System Software: macOS Monterey 12.2 (21D49) Time since boot: Less than an hour Configuration Files: /etc/hosts - Count: 1 Notifications: Blender 2.app 100 notifications Telegram.app 2 notifications Slack.app 46 notifications WhatsApp.app 42 notifications AutoCAD 2018.app one notification Creative Cloud.app 8 notifications Security: Gatekeeper: App Store and identified developers System Integrity Protection: Enabled Antivirus software: Apple and Malwarebytes Unsigned Files: Launchd: /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.unbound.plist Executable: /usr/local/opt/unbound/sbin/unbound -d -c /usr/local/etc/unbound/unbound.conf Details: Exact match found in the legitimate list - probably OK Launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.browserstack.local.plist Executable: /Applications/BrowserStackLocal.app/Contents/Resources/public/start_binary.sh Running app: /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501/dbkextd Details: Restrictive app permissions - possibly adware Plugin: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin Preference Pane: /Library/PreferencePanes/PrintOptionPane.prefPane Preference Pane: /Library/PreferencePanes/Tuxera NTFS.prefPane Apps: 27 Old Applications: 46 x86-only apps Kernel Extensions: /Library/Extensions [Not Loaded] CalDigitThunderboltStationChargingSupport.kext - com.CalDigit.ThunderboltStationChargingSupport (1.0 - SDK 10.11) [Not Loaded] FTDIKext.kext - com.FTDI.driver.D2XXHelper (1.0 - SDK 10.14) [Not Loaded] Dropbox.kext - com.getdropbox.dropbox.kext (1.13.0 - SDK 10.14) [Not Loaded] dfsfuse.kext - com.google.drivefs.filesystems.dfsfuse (45.2 - SDK 10.16) [Loaded] ms_ntfs.kext - com.iboysoft.filesystems.ms_ntfs (3.0 - SDK 10.13) [Not Loaded] CUDA.kext - com.nvidia.CUDA (1.1.0) [Not Loaded] SiLabsUSBDriver64.kext - com.silabs.driver.CP210xVCPDriver64 (3.0.0d1) [Not Loaded] Wacom Tablet.kext - com.wacom.kext.wacomtablet (Wacom Tablet 6.3.34-1 - SDK 10.14) Startup Items: TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper Path: /Library/StartupItems/TuxeraNTFSUnmountHelper System Launch Daemons: [Not Loaded] 38 Apple tasks [Loaded] 197 Apple tasks [Running] 141 Apple tasks [Other] One Apple task System Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] 15 Apple tasks [Loaded] 213 Apple tasks [Running] 121 Apple tasks [Other] One Apple task Launch Daemons: [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2021-02-10) [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2021-02-10) [Loaded] com.adobe.acc.installer.v2.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2021-11-05) [Running] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2021-12-21) [Loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist (? dbb717cc - installed 2021-05-18) [Running] com.docker.vmnetd.plist (Docker Inc - installed 2021-08-11) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2021-08-24) [Running] com.iBoysoft.ntfshelperd.plist (Chengdu Aibo Tech Co., Ltd. - installed 2021-06-14) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2022-02-21) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.settings.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2022-02-21) [Loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2021-08-12) [Loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2021-08-05) [Running] com.wacom.UpdateHelper.plist (Wacom Technology Corp. - installed 2021-10-29) [Loaded] com.wacom.displayhelper.plist (Apple - installed 2022-01-22) [Other] homebrew.mxcl.unbound.plist (? 9fdb5acc - installed 2021-03-08) Launch Agents: [Running] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist (Logitech Inc. - installed 2018-12-01) [Not Loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2022-02-15) [Running] com.adobe.GC.AGM.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2021-12-21) [Not Loaded] com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2021-12-21) [Loaded] com.adobe.ccxprocess.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2022-02-15) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2021-08-24) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2021-08-24) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.frontend.agent.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2022-02-21) [Running] com.wacom.DataStoreMgr.plist (Wacom Technology Corp. - installed 2021-10-29) [Running] com.wacom.IOManager.plist (Wacom Technology Corp. - installed 2021-10-29) [Running] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist (Wacom Technology Corp. - installed 2021-10-29) User Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist (Adobe Inc. - installed 2021-12-21) [Running] com.browserstack.local.plist (? 0 - installed 2021-09-06) [Loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2022-02-16) [Loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist (Valve Corporation - installed 2021-02-02) User Login Items: [Loaded] DockerHelper (Docker Inc - installed 2021-08-11) Modern Login Item /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/DockerHelper.app [Running] Dropbox (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2022-02-17) Application /Applications/Dropbox.app [Not Loaded] StartUpHelper (Spotify - installed 2020-07-04) Modern Login Item /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/StartUpHelper.app [Not Loaded] LaunchAtLoginHelper (Chengdu Aibo Tech Co., Ltd. - installed 2021-06-14) Modern Login Item /Applications/iBoysoft NTFS for Mac.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/LaunchAtLoginHelper.app Internet Plug-ins: Silverlight: 5.1.50901.0 (? - installed 2019-09-25) AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 17.012.20098 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2021-08-03) AdobePDFViewer: 21.005.20058 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2021-08-03) AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 (Adobe Inc. - installed 2022-02-15) 3rd Party Preference Panes: FUSE (Benjamin Fleischer - installed 2019-12-05) PrintOptionPane (? - installed 2018-05-04) WacomTablet (Wacom Technology Corp. - installed 2021-10-01) Tuxera NTFS (? - installed 2021-11-13) Backup: Time Machine information not available without Full Drive Access. Performance: System Load: 8.60 (1 min ago) 4.37 (5 min ago) 1.91 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O speed: 2.78 MB/s File system: 21.92 seconds Write speed: 1985 MB/s Read speed: 3070 MB/s CPU Usage Snapshot: Type Overall System: 2 % User: 3 % Idle: 95 % Top Processes Snapshot by CPU: Process (count) CPU (Source - Location) EtreCheckPro 17.88 % (Etresoft, Inc.) WindowServer 7.28 % (Apple) RTProtectionDaemon 2.58 % (Malwarebytes Corporation) kernel_task 1.70 % (Apple) wifianalyticsd 0.84 % (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Memory: Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) (12) 1.38 GB (Google, Inc.) Dropbox (3) 981 MB (Dropbox, Inc.) MTLCompilerService (19) 863 MB (Apple) EtreCheckPro 837 MB (Etresoft, Inc.) BrowserStackLocal --app --app-version 2.5 (2) 378 MB (?) Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use: Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location) corespeechd 2 KB / 6 MB (Apple) Dropbox 22 KB / 279 KB (Dropbox, Inc.) mDNSResponder 54 KB / 50 KB (Apple) trustd 53 KB / 4 KB (Apple) corekdld 293 B / 27 KB (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Energy Use: Process (count) Energy (0-100) (Source - Location) WhatsApp Helper (5) 28 (?) RTProtectionDaemon 25 (Malwarebytes Corporation) WhatsApp 17 (?) Google Chrome 9 (Google, Inc.) WindowServer 7 (Apple) Virtual Memory Information: Physical RAM: 32 GB Free RAM: 20 MB Used RAM: 9.76 GB Cached files: 22.22 GB Available RAM: 22.24 GB Swap Used: 0 B Software Installs (past 60 days): Install Date Name (Version) 2022-01-15 macOS Installer Notification (2.0) 2022-01-21 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (21.011.20039) (21.011.20039) 2022-01-28 macOS Monterey (12.2) 2022-01-28 macOS 12.2 (12.2) 2022-01-28 Pages (11.2) 2022-01-28 Numbers (11.2) 2022-01-28 Keynote (11.2) 2022-01-28 GarageBand (10.4.5) 2022-01-28 iMovie (10.3.1) 2022-02-04 XProtectPlistConfigData (2155) 2022-02-04 MRTConfigData (1.88) 2022-02-07 Google Drive (1.3.16.180) 2022-02-21 Malwarebytes for Mac (1.0) Diagnostics Information (past 7-30 days): 2022-02-21 16:30:45 Dropbox.app High CPU Use (3 times) Executable: /Applications/Dropbox.app 2022-02-21 15:24:11 Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.app High CPU Use (3 times) Executable: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2018/Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.app 2022-02-20 23:54:13 coreduetd High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/coreduetd 2022-02-20 01:07:30 rpcsvchost High CPU Use (2 times) Executable: /usr/libexec/rpcsvchost 2022-02-18 19:25:34 VTDecoderXPCService High CPU Use Executable: /System/Library/Frameworks/VideoToolbox.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/VTDecoderXPCService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/VTDecoderXPCService 2022-02-17 23:45:15 AutoCAD 2018.app High CPU Use Executable: /Applications/Autodesk/*/AutoCAD 2018.app 2022-02-16 02:31:39 Blender 2.app High CPU Use (2 times) Executable: /Applications/Blender 2.app 2022-02-15 03:04:24 trustd High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/trustd End of report Photoshop CC 2018/Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.app 2022-02-20 23:54:13 coreduetd - High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/coreduetd 2022-02-20 01:07:30 rpcsvchost - High CPU Use (2 times) Executable: /usr/libexec/rpcsvchost 2022-02-18 19:25:34 VTDecoderXPCService - High CPU Use Executable: /System/Library/Frameworks/VideoToolbox.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/VTDecoderXPCService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/VTDecoderXPCService 2022-02-17 23:45:15 AutoCAD 2018.app - High CPU Use Executable: /Applications/Autodesk/*/AutoCAD 2018.app 2022-02-16 02:31:39 Blender 2.app - High CPU Use (2 times) Executable: /Applications/Blender 2.app 2022-02-15 03:04:24 trustd - High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/trustd End of report

My macbook gets slow nearly unusable, speciially after starting any software. I attached the log from etrecheck.

Posted on Feb 21, 2022 7:57 AM

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Posted on Feb 21, 2022 8:10 AM

Q 1 - Battery failure - Your battery is reporting that it needs to be serviced.


Q 1 - Battery: Health = Service Battery - Cycle count = 640


A 1 - Batteries are considered Consumable Products. Over time it will degrade to a point where it needs to be replaced. The usage is normal as the capacity will go up and down all the time and never stay always at 100%. Apple Batteries are rated for 1000 Full Battery Cycles and / or 80% Capacity before needing Evaluation or replacement.



Q 2 - Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed that could be adware and should be reviewed.


A 2 - Self explanatory


Q 3 - No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.


A 3 - Make Time Machine Backup  is very useful and can be used to Revert to Previous Working macOS


Q 4 - System modifications - There are a large number of system modifications running in the background.


A 4 - Running a computer with a heavily Modified System may result in unintended results including Slownesses


Q 5 - Limited drive access - More information may be available with Full Drive Access.


A 5 - For more detailed assistance Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).


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Feb 21, 2022 8:10 AM in response to peppe65

Q 1 - Battery failure - Your battery is reporting that it needs to be serviced.


Q 1 - Battery: Health = Service Battery - Cycle count = 640


A 1 - Batteries are considered Consumable Products. Over time it will degrade to a point where it needs to be replaced. The usage is normal as the capacity will go up and down all the time and never stay always at 100%. Apple Batteries are rated for 1000 Full Battery Cycles and / or 80% Capacity before needing Evaluation or replacement.



Q 2 - Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed that could be adware and should be reviewed.


A 2 - Self explanatory


Q 3 - No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.


A 3 - Make Time Machine Backup  is very useful and can be used to Revert to Previous Working macOS


Q 4 - System modifications - There are a large number of system modifications running in the background.


A 4 - Running a computer with a heavily Modified System may result in unintended results including Slownesses


Q 5 - Limited drive access - More information may be available with Full Drive Access.


A 5 - For more detailed assistance Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).


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Macbook pro 2018 is too slow

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