My macbook seems to be slow. Is there something i can do to clean it up so it will work better?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How much available space on your HDD?
How much RAM?
What happens when you work in your Guest Account? Do you still experience the slowness?
You can find a lot of general maintenance articles online. Generally if my MacBook is running slow. I do the following.
Quit Out | Make sure you don't have too many programs running at once. How many apps do you have open?
Update your Software | If you use programs like Firefox make sure they are up to date. Some of the older systems have issues using up too much space.
Restart | This may be basic, but it really does speed up your computer.
Check Hard Drive Space | You need more than 15% free space. Otherwise the OS will act up.
Check Login Items | You'll notice your Mac startup much quicker this way.
Check you RAM | If you're running Lion, then you should have 4 GB of RAM unless you want to experience a lot of headache.
Clear your Cache, Etc. | If you want to keep this simple download CCleaner. It's pretty simple and does a good job.
Reset your PRAM | When your Mac is first booting up (before you see the apple symbol) hold Command, Option, P, and R. This will make your system reboot again.
Repair your Permissions | Open the Disk Utility App. Then highlight your hard drive on the left. Choose Repair permissions near the bottom of the window. Let this run until it's finished (2-20 min), then run it again.
If you're still experiencing issues after doing this, then you might want to Reboot in Safe Mode, which will make the system rebuild a lot of its scripts. Also look into re-indexing your files. This could also be the culprit.
Cleaning up my mac
