Is there a way to clean up your make to make it faster, I have a mac book pro from spring 2012, all my updates are current and i've just been using it for downloading, i try to keep as muck stuff on my external hard drive but it just seems to be getting progessivly slower, do mac's get viruses, is there a way to speed it up?
thanks
O
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Generally, no maintainence is needed for your Mac. There are no viruses. It could be third party Login Items, or something else in your user account. Try logging into your Guest account and testing, or try starting in Safe Mode and see if the problem still occurs?
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)
If this works look in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login items and delete any third party login items (-), you can always add them back with the (+). Also look in /Library/Startup Items. Nothing is put in that folder by default, so anything in there is yours.
You can also download OmniDiskSweeper . This will tell you which files are taking up most of hte space on your mac and you can go through and delete anything you know you don't need. Just make sure you know what you are deleting exactly.
Yes, pjdube also makes a good point... if you're running low on disk space Omni can help.
How much avaiable disk space do you have?
Apple menu > About this Mac > More Info > Storage tab.
Hey O --
Do you have anti-virus apps on there? I hope not.
Any "Security" apps?
What do you mean you use it for "downloading?"
Are you using Torrents, or anything similar?
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