Another slow iMac, mid 2010

1. Your free space on your HD is on the low side, around 10%. Probably OK for checking your email, but you may need more if you are doing more memory intensive work.
2. the google keystone daemon has been reported to misbehave by excessive phoning home.
3. I don’t think perian is supported by the developer any more.
4. MemorySweeperPro sounds like crapware. Crapware is anything that purports to "optimize", "clean", "accelerate", "monitor", or "protect" your Mac. These apps are unnecessary, poorly written, overpriced (if they were free, they'd still be overpriced), and harmful. They can damage the OS and be difficult to uninstall. Mavericks does not play well with crapware.
5. You have a lot of user login items.
6. Try a safe boot (restart, hold down shift until you see the Apple logo). This does some diagnostic testing and then starts up without third-party added on software. If this eliminates the symptom, then you know the problem is with the third-party software. A safe boot doesn't fix anything, but it tells you where the problem is. Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
7. If the safe boot fixes the slowness, you can either
   1. do a clean reinstall and not reinstall all the startup items/agents/daemons/etc
   2. or try to uninstall them one at a time and see how your mac behaves.
8. If a safe boot doesn’t improve the slowness then it’s probably a problem with OSX itself: Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Repair permissions too while you're there. OS X: About OS X Recovery

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Activity Monitor - Mavericks

Performance Guide

Why is my computer slow

Why your Mac runs slower than it should

Slow Mac After Mavericks

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118 GBs of free hard drive space is not a problem.

The 10 percent rule is a fallacy, now, with much larger capacity hard drives.

When hard drive sizes were 100 GBs or less, and OS X had a smaller install footprint, this 10 percent rule was very much applicable. Not so much, now.

OS X will continue to run without major issues until a hard drive gets to 15-20 GBs of free space left.

What is a driver for nomadesk?

What is Decimus?

Decimus is installed all over your system. If this is some sort of Firewall or antivirus, OS X doesn't need this.

If a software firewall! it is redundant an totally uneccesary.

If antivirus software!, it needs to be deleted as antivirus interferes with OS X's own security features.

Maybe you simply need to update all of your third party software if there are OS X Mavericks updates that can be applied. You may need to go the third party developers' websites if there are no updates through the Mac App Store.

Update all of your Web browser Internet plugins to Mavericks compatible versions, also.

Also, if you have any third party devices, like keyboards, mice, drawing tablets, hubs, card readers, audio/video hardware/interfaces, other types of connected hardware, etc, you need to update the drivers for these devices to OS X Mavericks compatible versions.

LINC DAVIS, PLEASE HELP ME, MY MID-2010 MAC IS PAINFULLY SLOW. I HAVE DONE HEREUNDER WHAT YOU SUGGESTED IN YOUR POST ABOVE DATED JAN 18,2014. THIS IS WHAT I GOT. THANKS SILVIA

Boot Mode: Normal

System diagnostics:

Calendar 2015-05-05-111518 hang

Contacts 2015-05-04-111729 hang

FaceTime 2015-04-28-205953 hang

FaceTime 2015-04-29-122941 hang

FaceTime 2015-05-05-111518 hang

FaceTime 2015-05-08-124247 hang

Safari 2015-04-20-100141 hang

discoveryd 2015-04-28-195718 crash

softwareupdated 2015-05-10-173148 crash

User diagnostics:

AddressBookSourceSync 2015-04-21-153159 crash

AddressBookSourceSync 2015-04-21-153217 crash

AddressBookSourceSync 2015-04-21-153621 crash

Finder 2015-05-02-114205 crash

plugin-container 2015-04-17-125408 crash

Kernel messages:

May 8 03:48:47 Over-release of kernel-internal importance assertions for pid 3307 (awdd), dropping 1 assertion(s) but task only has 3 remaining (3 external).

May 8 12:00:13 Over-release of kernel-internal importance assertions for pid 4149 (com.apple.Addres), dropping 1 assertion(s) but task only has 15 remaining (15 external).

May 8 19:37:11 Over-release of kernel-internal importance assertions for pid 4765 (AddressBookSourc), dropping 1 assertion(s) but task only has 0 remaining (0 external).

May 9 02:26:47 Over-release of kernel-internal importance assertions for pid 332 (WiFiAgent), dropping 1 assertion(s) but task only has 0 remaining (0 external).

May 10 14:17:56 PM notification timeout (pid 551, Mail)

May 10 14:17:56 PM notification timeout (pid 5621, soagent)

Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions:

com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.68)

com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext (1.0)

Extrinsic system jobs:

com.rim.BBDaemon

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon

com.adobe.fpsaud

Extrinsic agents:

com.rim.BBLaunchAgent

com.rim.RimAlbumArtDaemon

com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate

com.google.keystone.user.agent

/Library/LaunchAgents:

com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist

com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons:

com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

com.rim.BBDaemon.plist

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

/Library/StartupItems:

tap

tun

Library/LanguageModeling:

da-dynamic.lm

en-dynamic.lm

es-dynamic.lm

fr-dynamic.lm

it-dynamic.lm

nl-dynamic.lm

pt-dynamic.lm

sv-dynamic.lm

Library/LaunchAgents:

com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist

com.google.keystone.agent.plist

Extrinsic loadable bundles:

/System/Library/Extensions/ElmediaPlayer.kext

(com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext)

/System/Library/Extensions/RIMBBUSB.kext

(com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt)

/System/Library/Extensions/RIMBBVSP.kext

(com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverVSP)

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Flip4Mac WMA Import.component

(net.telestream.wmv.import)

/Library/Extensions/hp_io_enabler_compound.kext

(com.hp.kext.io.enabler.compound)

/Library/Extensions/tap.kext

(foo.tap)

/Library/Extensions/tun.kext

(foo.tun)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/DirectorShockwave.plugin

(com.adobe.director_12_0.shockwave.pluginshim)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin

(com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

(net.telestream.wmv.plugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

(com.microsoft.sharepoint.browserplugin)

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin

(com.microsoft.sharepoint.webkitplugin)

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flash Player.prefPane

(com.adobe.flashplayerpreferences)

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane

(net.telestream.wmv.prefpane)

/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane

(com.growl.prefpanel)

/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component

(net.telestream.wmv.advanced)

/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Export.component

(net.telestream.wmv.export)

/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component

(net.telestream.wmv.import)

/Library/Spotlight/LogicPro.mdimporter

(No bundle ID)

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle

(com.skype.skypeabdialer)

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABSMS.bundle

(com.skype.skypeabsms)

Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/A52Codec.component

(com.shepmater.A52Codec)

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin

(com.citrixonline.mac.WebDeploymentPlugin)

Library/PreferencePanes/Perian.prefPane

(org.perian.PerianPane)

Library/QuickTime/AC3MovieImport.component

(com.cod3r.ac3movieimport)

Library/QuickTime/Perian.component

(org.perian.Perian)

DNS: 87.216.1.65

Restricted user files: 156

Elapsed time (s): 99

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

Thanks, I will.