User profile for user: HillarySidra
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how do I speed up the start up time on my iMac?

I have a mid 2010 iMac with the following specs:


Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3

Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB

Software: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

Hard drive: 1TB of which almost 800GB is free


I never had any problems with speed or startup time when running mountain lion (or whatever it was that came before Mavericks) but I stupidly upgraded to Mavericks before reading about all the bugs and now my computer is mind numbingly slow when I first turn it on. It runs ok once it starts up but the start up process has gone form less than a minute, to turn the computer on and go make a cup of coffee and it's still chugging away when I come back. I installed an extra 4gb of ram (it came from the factory with 4gb) but that only made a small difference. I really dont want to erase and reinstall everything so I've tried adding ram, repairing permissions and doing a p ram restart. Does anyone have any suggestions?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 16, 2014 7:00 AM

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User profile for user: HillarySidra
HillarySidra Author
User level: Level 1
5 points

Sep 16, 2014 7:36 AM in response to Esquared

EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)

Report generated September 16, 2014 at 10:33:59 AM EDT


Hardware Information: ?

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)

iMac - model: iMac11,2

1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU: 2 cores

8 GB RAM


Video Information: ?

ATI Radeon HD 5670 - VRAM: 512 MB

iMac 1920 x 1080


System Software: ?

OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 1:14:32


Disk Information: ?

WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0 disk0 : (1 TB)

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

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (794.16 GB free)

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


HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N


USB Information: ?

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

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

Brother MFC-J650DW

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader


Firewire Information: ?

Seagate Backup+ Desk Mac 800mbit - 800mbit max

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

disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk1s2) /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive: 2.49 TB (1.15 TB free)

Time Machine (disk1s3) /Volumes/Time Machine: 509.8 GB (201.49 GB free)


Configuration files: ?

/etc/hosts - Count: 16


Gatekeeper: ?

Anywhere


Kernel Extensions: ?

[not loaded] com.Maxtor.driver.PowSecDriver (4.3.1) Support

[not loaded] com.maxtor.iokit.IOFireWireMxBt (4.2.6) Support


Startup Items: ?

MxBtDaemon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MxBtDaemon


Launch Daemons: ?

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support

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

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support


Launch Agents: ?

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support

[running] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist Support

[running] com.epson.epw.agent.plist Support

[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support


User Launch Agents: ?

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support

[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist Support

[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist

[failed] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist Support

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support


User Login Items: ?

Google Drive

Dropbox

SpyderUtility


Internet Plug-ins: ?

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.10 Support

Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.10 Support

CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL: Version: 3.0.0.2 Support

GarminGpsControl: Version: 4.0.2.6 Beta - SDK 10.6 Support

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 60 Check version


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


User iTunes Plug-ins ?

TuneUp Visualizer: Version: 2.2.0 Support


3rd Party Preference Panes: ?

Akamai NetSession Preferences Support

Flash Player Support

Growl Support

Java Support


Time Machine: ?

Skip System Files: NO

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 930.71 GB Disk used: 191.10 GB

Destinations:

Time Machine [Local] (Last used)

Total size: 474.79 GB

Total number of backups: 106

Oldest backup: 2013-01-16 03:21:53 +0000

Last backup: 2014-09-16 13:51:52 +0000

Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 474.79 GB < (Disk used 191.10 GB X 3)

Time Machine details may not be accurate.

All volumes being backed up may not be listed.


Top Processes by CPU: ?

42% firefox

3% WindowServer

1% Garmin Lifetime Map Updater

1% hidd

0% Dropbox


Top Processes by Memory: ?

1.12 GB Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

531 MB firefox

98 MB mds_stores

98 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent

82 MB Google Drive


Virtual Memory Information: ?

70 MB Free RAM

2.73 GB Active RAM

4.63 GB Inactive RAM

588 MB Wired RAM

474 MB Page-ins

148 KB Page-outs

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
User level: Level 10
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Sep 16, 2014 2:15 PM in response to HillarySidra

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Step 1

For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes.)

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamps of the BOOT_TIME log messages, which refer to the times when the system was started. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract—not at the end.

If there are long runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.

When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Step 2

In the Console window, select

DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports

(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar.

There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A crash report has a name that begins with the name of the crashed process and ends in ".crash". A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". Select the most recent of each. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entirecontents—the text, not a screenshot.

I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.

If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash or panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.

In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)

Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

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