My MacBook Pro lately has been running slow.

iMovie: good, the next time it will take less time (it had to reinstall some deleted things, like plist and so on).

Happy that everything is better now, and that there seems to be no hardware issue.

Lex

Good to hear. Please consider using Time Machine. An external USB hard disk backup drive of adequate capacity can be purchased for as little as $55, and Time Machine is free. It requires no intervention, other than to plug in the hard disk drive once in a while.

To learn about Time Machine read Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac

Hey,

I have a 2013, 2.5 Ghz 4GB Macbook pro and it's running really slow when i open it from putting it in sleep mode. I only shut it completely down occasionally, but lately it takes ages for me to actually type my password in, and then once i'm on it runs really slow. I ran the etreCheck app and it says:

EtreCheck version: 1.9.13 (49)

Report generated 16 August 2014 15:31:01 BST

Hardware Information: ?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM

Video Information: ?

Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)

Color LCD 1280 x 800

System Software: ?

OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 16:49:43

Disk Information: ?

APPLE HDD ST500LM012 disk0 : (500.11 GB)

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (406.57 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N

USB Information: ?

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Thunderbolt Information: ?

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: ?

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ?

[loaded] com.dvdfab.kext.fabio (1) Support

Launch Daemons: ?

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support

User Login Items: ?

iTunesHelper

Garmin Express Service

DVDAuthorizeHelper

Internet Plug-ins: ?

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20513.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version

Safari Extensions: ?

Searchme-2

Ebay Shopping Assistant

Amazon Shopping Assistant

Audio Plug-ins: ?

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9

iTunes Plug-ins: ?

Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9

3rd Party Preference Panes: ?

Flash Player Support

Time Machine: ?

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ?

1% WindowServer

1% Safari

0% com.apple.WebKit.Networking

0% fontd

0% hidd

Top Processes by Memory: ?

152 MB Safari

119 MB softwareupdated

90 MB iTunes

86 MB ocspd

66 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

Virtual Memory Information: ?

1.23 GB Free RAM

1.40 GB Active RAM

768 MB Inactive RAM

635 MB Wired RAM

1.07 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Nick

Hello Nick,

It is always better to start a new thread.

I advise you to get rid of the ads generating Safari extensions, all three. Remove them by going to Safari Preferences->Extensions and choosing "uninstall" for each. You might be happy with AdblockPlus instead.

I am not sure DVDf (blu ray) is compatible with Mavericks, otherwise uninstall.

You have to update Adobe Flashplayer.

Uninstall DVDAuthorize.

In SystemPreferences->Users&Groups->LoginItems, remove all three entries, with the minus sign underneath. Then restart.

And, be sure to have a good backup strategy, read John's earlier post in this thread.

I do not see any obvious reason for the considerable slowing down: you have enough ram and enough diskspace.

Maybe it was the DVDAuthorize running always from startup, it might be better after the uninstall of that software.

Lex

Thank you so much Lex! Huge help and running much better already.

Great.

When you still are not completely happy, say so and send a new etrecheck list, and also a list of all non-apple apps in Applications and Utilities, and explain at what moment doing what you think you have the issue.

Lex