How to make my Mac mini faster

weeklycod wrote:

I used to. but etrecheckPro crashes and beachballs I dont know what is happening

You posted an Etrecheck report than indicated "Excellent" performance and lots of free disk space. So you did get Etrecheck to run. "Etrecheck crashes" -- what does that mean? What happens when it "crashes?"

With utm you were running virtual machines. Those emulate other hardware using software and the Mini's processor, not actual other hardware, so not only are virtual machines much slower than real computers with those other OS, but they can tax the Mini's processor in a major way. Including beachballs.

You indicated the utm is now uninstalled, but again, as with Norton anti-virus, the software has to be COMPLETELY uninstalled and removed or remnants could remain and impact what you see when operating normally.

As for your original question, unless there is some remnant of Norton still lurking in the background somewhere, there really is not anything you can do to "make my Mac mini faster." You have plenty of free disk space, you cannot change the 16 GB memory (which is somewhat minimal but should be adequate), your processor can only run as fast as it runs, but it is an M4, that's a powerful chip. So what you see is what you get.

I would say: make sure what you uninstalled is really completely uninstalled, but barring that, don't worry about your Mac and just go ahead and use it.

If you see beachballs that are disrupting your use of the Mac, please take note of exactly what was running and what you were doing, as just saying "beachballs" here is too vague for anyone to try to diagnose anything.