Improving Mac performance with CleanMyMac

Now that you have asked the question...

CleanMyMac will not make your Mac run faster, and very likely will interfere with its best performance. Stay away from it. CMM does nothing that macOS itself doesn't do. Many veteran users here in the Community liken CMM to malware.

We might be able to help figure out what’s going on with your Mac. It could be anything from an unintentional malware installation to a hardware bottleneck or failure. Some things are fairly easy to fix.

Please run an EtreCheck evaluation of your Mac and post the generated report back here in a reply. EtreCheck is a safe and highly regarded utility from a trusted developer and respected ASC contributor. The diagnostic report will not include any personal info. It simply gathers specifics about hardware performance and installed software that might be in conflict with the OS.

Please navigate to EtreCheck.com and download the free version. Be sure to Allow Full Disk Access when you install the app. Once you’ve run the app and created your report please post it with your reply to this message. 

Please note you must upload the full report. To see how, please click >  How to use Add Text when posting… EtreCheck Report.

We’ll use your EtreCheck report to look for the things that may be causing your problem and advise how to correct them.

heybastian wrote:

I'm sorry, didn't realize that I was starting a topic. I thought I was searching the topics

No apologies needed. You did exactly the right thing for these forums. I know there are some childish forums on the internet that will flame you for starting a new thread, but not here. (Most of the senior contributors here are just that—"seniors." 😉)

When people tag another question onto an existing thread, it:

• is confusing to those trying to respond
• can cause some helpers to ignore the tag-on,
• dilutes the help the original poster deserves.

A big +1 on posting an Etrecheck report. It is our single best tool for helping effectively in a setting where we can neither see nor touch your computer, and without our playing a protracted game of "20 Questions" with you that could go on for days! The most common "slow" issues with iMacs are easily picked up in the the EtreCheck report, and we can response based on data, not conjecture.

Cat-like, clean themselves automatically and have to nearly a quarter-century, The elegant self-maintenance routine you paid Apple to build into the OS are comprehensive and need no help.