iMac 24 inch Late 2006 VERY SLOW!!!

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iMac 24 inch Late 2006 VERY SLOW!!!

My iMac 24 inch Late 2006 running OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) is very slow at times. A reboot helps but after a few hours of web browsing and it starts to crawl. Crawl as in clicks don't get a response till 10-20 seconds later. I'm unable to edit any movies in iMovie cause it's just so painfully slow. iMovie can barely load everything up let alone start editing. I haven't tried iMovie in several months because of it. Is there a way to check for viruses on macs? Is there such a thing as a virus on macs? or is there a way to check what the heck is slowing it down? tips and suggestions are gladly welcome. thanks

system details:

24inch iMac Late 2006

2.16 ghz intel Core 2 Duo

3 GB 667mhz DDR2 SDRAM

Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT 128 MB

Posted on Dec 15, 2014 9:31 AM

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Answer 1

rkaufmann87

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Dec 15, 2014 9:48 AM in response to LmannyR

On a 8 (almost 9) year old machine this can be caused by any number of items. The first thing to do is post an EtreCheck report of your computer and we can look for obvious issues. You can get EtreCheck by clicking http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

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Answer 2

justin-T

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Dec 15, 2014 10:20 AM in response to LmannyR

EtreCheck will probably help with a diagnosis, but my first question is to ask how much free space is there on your hard drive?

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Answer 3

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 10:42 AM in response to justin-T

I have 1.4 TB free. (3TB upgraded HD)

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Answer 4

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 10:47 AM in response to rkaufmann87

EtreCheck version: 2.1.2 (105)

Report generated December 15, 2014 1:43:25 PM EST

Hardware Information: ℹ️

iMac (24-inch, Late 2006) (Verified)

iMac - model: iMac6,1

1 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core

3 GB RAM

BANK 0/DIMM0

1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM1

2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT - VRAM: 128 MB

iMac 1920 x 1200

System Software: ℹ️

Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Uptime: 1:52:45

Disk Information: ℹ️

ST3000DM001-1CH166 disk0 : (3 TB)

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

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 3.00 TB (1.41 TB free)

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

USB Information: ℹ️

Micron Built-in iSight

Western Digital My Book 1 TB

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

disk3s1 (disk3s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Untitled (disk3s2) /Volumes/Untitled : 999.86 GB (140.00 GB free)

Western Digital My Book 1 TB

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

disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

My Book (disk2s2) /Volumes/My Book : 999.86 GB (611.18 GB free)

Boot OSX (disk2s3) <not mounted> : 134 MB

Mitsumi Electric Hub in Apple Extended USB Keyboard

Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Startup Items: ℹ️

HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite

Launch Agents: ℹ️

[running] com.epson.Epson_Low_Ink_Reminder.launcher.plist [Support]

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

[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

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

[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist [Support]

[not loaded] com.gopro.stereomodestatus.plist [Support]

[loaded] com.leapfrog.connect.authdaemon.plist [Support]

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

[invalid?] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

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

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

[failed] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist [Support] [Details]

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

[running] com.leapfrog.connect.monitor.plist [Support]

User Login Items: ℹ️

None

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

DirectorShockwave: Version: 11.6.1r629 [Support]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 [Support]

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 [Support]

RayV: Version: 3.0.1.87 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20125.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.246 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.246 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 16.0.0.235

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.2 [Support]

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 8.1.0 [Support]

CouponPrinter-FireFox_v2: Version: Version 1.1.6 [Support]

Scorch: Version: 6.2.0 [Support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version

User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 [Support]

Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 2.6.1f3 [Support]

Picasa: Version: 1.0 [Support]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Support]

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

Facebook Cleaner

Better Facebook

Blur (Formerly DoNotTrackMe)

AdBlock

Do Not Track Plus

Facebook Photo Zoom

Twitter Disconnect

Google Disconnect

Facebook Disconnect

AdBlock

Social Fixer

Audio Plug-ins: ℹ️

iSightAudio: Version: 7.6

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Adobe Version Cue CS3 [Support]

Flash Player [Support]

Flip4Mac WMV [Support]

GoPro [Support]

MySQL [Support]

Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

36% usbmuxd

4% AppleMobileBackup

2% WebProcess

2% Safari

1% iTunes

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

413 MB WebProcess

341 MB iTunes

264 MB Safari

87 MB WindowServer

68 MB mds

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

878 MB Free RAM

1.74 GB Active RAM

243 MB Inactive RAM

362 MB Wired RAM

323 MB Page-ins

676 KB Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

Dec 15, 2014, 11:51:14 AM Self test - passed

Dec 15, 2014, 04:54:41 AM java_2014-12-15-045441_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 07:54:36 AM java_2014-12-14-075436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 01:54:36 AM java_2014-12-14-015436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 04:54:36 PM java_2014-12-13-165436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 01:54:36 PM java_2014-12-13-135436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 10:54:36 AM java_2014-12-13-105436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 07:54:36 AM java_2014-12-13-075436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 15, 2014, 11:52:04 AM java_2014-12-15-115204_LRC-7.crash

Dec 15, 2014, 11:27:55 AM plugin-container_2014-12-15-112755_LRC-7.crash

Dec 15, 2014, 10:54:42 AM java_2014-12-15-105442_LRC-7.crash

Dec 15, 2014, 07:54:36 AM java_2014-12-15-075436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 15, 2014, 01:54:41 AM java_2014-12-15-015441_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 10:54:42 PM java_2014-12-14-225442_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 07:54:36 PM java_2014-12-14-195436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 04:54:36 PM java_2014-12-14-165436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 01:54:36 PM java_2014-12-14-135436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 10:54:41 AM java_2014-12-14-105441_LRC-7.crash

Dec 14, 2014, 04:54:41 AM java_2014-12-14-045441_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 10:54:41 PM java_2014-12-13-225441_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 07:54:36 PM java_2014-12-13-195436_LRC-7.crash

Dec 13, 2014, 04:54:36 AM java_2014-12-13-045436_LRC-7.crash

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Answer 5

MichelPM

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Dec 15, 2014 11:37 AM in response to LmannyR

Basically, what it comes down to is that your IMac is starved for RAM, but your iMac model is maxed out at its recommended 3 GBs of RAM.

All newer versions of OS X (10.7 and later) really need a "real world working" minimum of 4 GBa of. RAM or more.

The amount of RAM in your 2006 IMac is barely sufficient.

Technically, you could replace the 1 GB RAM module inside of your IMac with a 2 GB RAM module, instead.

Having matching pairs of RAM helps a little with performance, but the 2006 IMac is not capable of using or reading the full 4 Gbs of RAM installed.

Your iMac year and model will only read between 3.2-3.5 GBs of the total 4 GBs If you installed that replacement 2 GB RAM module.

So, I am not sure if it is worth spending $32 or so U.S.D, on the 2 GB module for your iMac.

You would see some performance gain from it and the RAM modules is not expensive to perhaps consider purchasing and installing it into your iMac.

Correct, compatible and reliable Mac RAM can ONLY be purchased from online RAM sources Crucial memory or OWC (macsales.com).

Here re is the correct Ram modules you need from OWC.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/5300DDR2S2GB/

And how to install it.

http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_intel_white_mem_h/

Good Luck!

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Answer 6

justin-T

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Dec 15, 2014 11:48 AM in response to LmannyR

I'm not convinced its the RAM (although that will certainly be slowing things to some extent), why would it be OK after reboot and slow down from web browsing?

Which version of iMovie are you running?

Have you run Activity Monitor when its in its slow mode? (In the Utilities folder, which is in the Applications folder). Get it to show "All processes" and see if there's something hogging the CPU.

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Answer 7

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 11:54 AM in response to justin-T

Next time it gets slow, I'll run the Activity Monitor. Right now, after a reboot before starting this thread, its still running ok with mail and safari. I dare not to run anything else cause it'll start dragging slower than a corps.

iMovie has been trying to load now for about 3 min….once it loads, I'll post the version.

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Answer 8

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 11:55 AM in response to justin-T

iMovie is still loading but looking through the APP folder I found the version…. 9.09

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Answer 9

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 12:00 PM in response to LmannyR

Still Loading..

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Answer 10

justin-T

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Dec 15, 2014 12:02 PM in response to LmannyR

Have you previously been able to run iMovie smoothly on this machine?

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Answer 11

Old Toad

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Dec 15, 2014 12:04 PM in response to LmannyR

To find the version of an application Control (right) - click on it and select Get Info from the contextual menu. The Info window will give the version number.

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Answer 12

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 12:05 PM in response to justin-T

Oh yeah….the first 3-4 years no problem. It was great. Then it's been dragging.

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Answer 13

justin-T

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Dec 15, 2014 12:10 PM in response to LmannyR

That would have been with an earlier version of iMovie when you bought the mac. You must have bought iLife '09 at some point; has this version of iMovie ever run smoothly?

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Answer 14

LmannyR Author

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Dec 15, 2014 12:11 PM in response to justin-T

I can't recall for certain. I want to say yes but not exactly sure.

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Answer 15

justin-T

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Dec 15, 2014 12:18 PM in response to LmannyR

I'm guessing you may also be trying to edit higher res movies than you were in 2007. Unfortunately, I think Michel may be right… If you want to edit movies you may have no options left than to buy a newer mac with more RAM and a much faster processor.

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