Lion is very slow please help!

Having sorted the fonts out (again!), thanks for the tip, I decided to target Safari.

I found that even with all extensions either uninstalled or (there were seven I wanted to keep if possible) disabled, the results were as follows:

Extensions OFF (as in Safari's ALL OFF): 02.40 - Safari opens and loads the page within a few seconds and functions normally.

Extentions ON but disabled: 03.10 - Safari loads the page in small chunks, is unresponsive (red in Activity Monitor) and is sluggish and unresponsive after the page has loaded.

Simply having extensions ON - even though they are all disabled - seems to be causing the problem.

Even with extensions OFF, this is still a lot slower than the 40s which it was taking with Snow Leopard and I am yet to see if the other problems I was having have been resolved, I'll have to review the situation after a day or so's use.

Hello Everyone,

After 3 weeks using Lion, it seems that everithing is staring to work normal. Follow some steps that I Followed and what happend to me since the begining. I Hope it Helps:

My Machine is a MBP 15" I7 with 8GB

- Running increadible slow after instalation = 40 Hours to index Spotlight / Increased a bit the speed but still not stutting down the system, only with a hard boot. More than 01 minute to turn on the machine and arround 2 inutes to open every program / application. Waited untill Spotlight Indexation.

- Still Runnig slow = Used Disk Utility before Booting the system (Alt pressed while booting) - System Found Several conflicts and solved. = Speed Improved

- System speed increased, but still not shutting down automatically - Mainly when using Office. When Office 11 was not opened, there were no Problems to shut down. This problem still affects me. The only way is to open office and to close programs, I Have to Manualy end the program (forcing to shut down). When I try to close direcly on the bar above (forgot the technical name - sorry), it doesn't seems to work. - Problem still stopping to shut down.

- System still slow when opening Paralells Desktop - Yesterday they launched an update that solved it.

- PS was very Slow - Followed the steps of some friends changing some configurations and worked. Some CS5 Softwares are still slower than when using SL, but I couldn't find why.

- Sometimes the spotlight begins again to index - Must wait / no other way discovered untill now.

In Summary - Still having problems with Office 11, mainly with Outlook - Sometimes it takes 10 to 15 minutes to open program and it crashes when trying to shut down SW and Computer. Accepting Suggestions !!!

Hope it helps, at least to increase Hope using Lion. Still Prefer SL.

I have the same problem with

* Slow startup .. at least compared to snow leopard

* Flash is buggy now and than

* Laggy system

NEED HELP PLEASE

I know this is a stupid question, but have you run the Microsoft Office Updater to see if that resolves the problems? It fixed everything for me.

I Tryed, but apparently I'm running the last version. Did you find another way?

Thanks!

Is there Any way to downgrade to SL? I realy wish I did not jumb so quickly to lion.

Only with an Erase & install.

Always have a bootable clone of any previous OSX install before upgrading.

Well I did not make a bootable clone before upgrading, but i have a backup through time machine. Will that be Ok?

Thnx for ur help

yes, when you're installing SL it'll ask you if you have a time machine backup. you're set!

Message was edited by: TheSmokeMonster: If it's a SL backup, don't backup Lion!

I have a MacBook Pro 17" 2.2GHz Intel Core i7

4 GB Ram 1333 MHz DDR3

Recently installed Lion and at the beginning it was considerably faster, but all of sudden last couple of weeks

it grinds to a really really slow speed from broswer and opening webpages to launching apps, its redicolous.

why is this happning, APPLE, can you please make a patch or soemthing?? my machine is pretty new and I think it was made with this OS in mind. Please help or give me my money back.

I really hope you guys are sending this to the real apple feedback, not just the user supported, user support forum.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I am also experiencing a lot of distress, since I depend on the mac to work. I have a macbook pro with 4GB of ram and am not a heavy user. Just losts of emails and Office applications. It is impossible to work with lion, and it has been a week since Lion, so I dont think it is indexing. I dont know what to do.

I have mds using 45-50%, mdworker around 22% and something called mtmd using 110%. So if KaptainKopter is correct, it looks like my problem might be system reorginization. Can anyone tell me how long this might go on? I'm using a MacBook with a 2.2 GHz Core 2 processor and 4 GB of memory.

I don't know if I'm an Exception, but mine (MBP Mid 2010 Core I7 8GB Ram) took 1 week incredible slow, almost stopping all activities, 1 week Running Ok and 1 week running Ok but with some Slow SW Problems. But even after 3 weeks, I'm still experiencing some problems with Office and Safari. Sometimes Spotlight starts indexing again and it generate some trouble running all programs (but it takes usually 5 minutes).

I Did, but they don't respond to e-mails or contacts using this channel.

I Also went to Apple Store, but incredibly, they didn't hear anything about it.