Q: Late 2009 iMac running slow
I have a late 2009 21.5 iMac, 500gb hdd, 8gb ram. Mavericks is installed. Recently I added a new user after only having 1 user since the computer was purchased new in 2009. Ever since adding the new user, the computer run really really slow. I get the spinning color wheel beach ball everytime I click on ANYTHING. I need help to figure out what's wrong. I have checked the following:
Activity monitor;
Nothing is high in memory at all.
Nothing is hogging CPU time.
Cache is less than 1 Gb
Used memory is less than 2 gb
Users and groups;
No start up items in any users profile.
Had one administrator account for several years and had no problems. The computer was lightning fast. I recently added another administrator account to have two separate accounts for use.
Computer slowed down dramatically
Realized that this was also a bit of a security concern;
So I added a third admin account (for admin use only) and changed the 2 other accounts to "standard users.
Please help, I have tried just about everything I can find on this discussions page to fix it to no avail.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Apr 21, 2014 6:24 AM