MacBook Running slow

Hello again,

I have to come back to this thread because my MBP mid 2009 still got problem of stalling and crashing.

this trick worked initially but not all problems' gone. it recently stall up more often particularly when I run Safari, MS word, itune

I tried the disk utility , did the verification and repair and got this message, dont know what it meant.

please help.

my MBP is 13", mid 2009, still running OS X 10.5.8

HDD 160, 36G free

RAM 4GB

This is a common problem. All you need to do is shut the computer off and plug it in to the wall. After you do that you need to hold down the left shift, option and control and the power button for 10 seconds. It should not turn on. After that you need to just turn on the computer as normal. This should fix your problems!

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

Simple steps: (You can try from Step 3- 5)

1) took a Genius bar appointment at an Apple Store nearby Apple - Concierge

2) Associate was very knowledgeable. He performed the necessary hardware check. All was good

3) It happened that my FileVault setting (System Preferences) was Turned ON & the harddisk was seem to be encrypting.

4) All you need to do is allow the disk to encrypt Overnight & once done Turn OFF the FileVault setting setting.

5) The disk will continue to decrypt in the background.

Regards,

Abhi_99

We would like to know what size hard drive you have and how much free space is on it.

If you click on your Hard drive icon (should be upper right hand corner of your screen), or the Finder in your Dock...when the window opens it says at the bottom how much Free Space you have on your drive.

If you go to the , click on About This Mac, click on More Info... in that window. The next window says how big your hard drive is under Hardware....click on Serial-ATA.....look under Capacity:

We need to know this cause if a hard drive is too full it slows things down and creates operational difficulties.

DALE

Making this post for future reference and for others who may be having this problem:

My 8 month old Macbook Pro one day suddenly started running very slow - no clue why. It was impossible to browse the internet or use Word without extreme frustration. I found out through extensive googling that my problem was my CPU idle % was under 10% and as low as 3%. (I read online that it should never be below 80 - if it is, that means some process is draining your CPU. You can check this by going to Utilities --> System Manager --> CPU should be selected, and at the bottom of the window it shows you the percentage of idle use).

Before I figured out the specific problem, I did all of the following: verify disk permissions, reindexing Spotlight, and resetting PRAM/NVRAM as instructed by Apple (by pressing control shift option power after turning on computer but before it starts up). No luck. Once I found out the problem was CPU usage, I tried using the purge command in Terminal (Utiltiies --> Terminal --> "purge" --> enter key) according to suggestions from other users. Still no success.

The response above by AppleFixItGuy WORKED! (turn off computer, hold down ctrl shft optn power for 10 seconds, turn computer back on). I thought it wouldn't help since I'd already entered these commands while booting. But no problems thus far, 3 hours later.

I just created an account to say.. Thank you! I've been living in pain with my slow macbook for a while, and was planning to expand the RAM. This was a cheaper solution, don't know how it works, and agree with DA_BOMB1998zthat is dark magic. Well, thanks.

I tried this. The computer turned on towards the end of the 10 seconds - should it do this or should it take a separate press of the power button alone to power up after performing this trick?

Many thanks,

The dark magic is basically a reset of the SMC (System Management Controller) which is an intel-only feature if you are still more curious I'm sure you can google it and get some insight into how it works.

Also something that has always worked for me is purging.

Open Terminal (spotlight search is easy way to get there), let the terminal load for a second, type "purge" and hit enter. The computer will seem to slow drastically for about 5 seconds or so, then all returns to normal.

This dumps all the stored memory that is not being used by programs. Sometimes there are memory "leaks" even after you quit a program. Purge the system and free up all that space. You'll be surprised how much faster things will run.

Thank you you helped me so much everything kept crashing and freezing i have cleaned my mac so it had over a 100gb left but nothing work when i used you method it worked instantly my mac was so fast it was like it was when i first got it 😁

I have got a problem in Mac since 5 to 7 days

whenever i on my Mac, it takes 3 to 4 minutes to just on and then it keeps on processing for 1 or 2 more minutes before finally it starts.

Can you please help me with the soltuion

Thanks in advance