Macbook slows down at the same time every day.

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Macbook slows down at the same time every day.

I know this makes me sound crazy, but my Macbook (running Mac OS X) starts to get inexplicably sluggish at the same time every day – roughly between 4:30 and 5 p.m. Applications start temporarily freezing up and I get that beachball-looking thing, and I have to force quit applications because they won't quit normally. I have McAffee virus protection through my school and a full scan reveals nothing. I also have the latest security updates.

The applications I run on a given day are pretty typical: Chrome, Acrobat, Dropbox, Twitter desktop and Word. I never download any unauthorized software or shady files. No idea what it could be, but it is not just in my head. Any educated guesses?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Apr 23, 2012 1:58 PM

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Dave Stowe

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Apr 23, 2012 2:15 PM in response to crabapple12

Is the McAffee anti virus set to scan automaticaly around 4:30 -5:00?

.....you might want to open Activity Monitor and check what apps are running and check their CPU usage.......sounds like something is running in the background.....

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Apr 24, 2012 12:40 AM in response to crabapple12

Maybe you MacBook does it's indexing of the HD every day between those hours ...

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Apr 24, 2012 11:43 AM in response to Dave Stowe

That's it. There wasn't an automatic setting, but McAffee had been downloading an update aroudn that time every day for the past week (presumably in response to the new malware threats). Thanks!

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