What is the best way to clean up my Mac?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Bad hard drive
What are you trying to clean up? Macs aren't like pc's that need constant maintenance and if you start installing third party utilities you will eventually brick your mac.
There's this How to clean Apple products - Apple Support
Just wanting to speed it up, it takes so much longer for everything to load then it did and was wondering if there was something I needed to do.
There could be some incompatible or poorly written software installed, get and run EtreCheck http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck and post its result here so we can get a look at your system.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated January 8, 2015 at 7:47:01 PM PST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac11,3
1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
empty empty empty empty
BANK 1/DIMM1
empty empty empty empty
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
ATI Radeon HD 5670 - VRAM: 512 MB
iMac 1920 x 1080
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 12:4:51
Disk Information: ℹ️
ST31000528AS disk0 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.35 GB (797.10 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N
USB Information: ℹ️
Seagate Backup+ Desk 2 TB
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 32 KB
Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk1s3) /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive : 2.00 TB (1.70 TB free)
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
LaCie P'9223 Mobile Drive 1 TB
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
LaCie (disk2s2) /Volumes/LaCie : 999.86 GB (286.44 GB free)
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Adware: ℹ️
Geneio [Remove]
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.tomtom.driver.UsbEthernetGadget (1.0.0d1) [Support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]
[invalid?] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper UNKNOWN (missing value)
MyTomTomSA Application (/Applications/MyTomTomSA.app)
FaceboxPro Application (/Applications/FaceboxPro.app)
AdobeResourceSynchronizer Application (/Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.0 [Support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 [Support]
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.5 [Support]
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.13 [Support]
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.13 [Support]
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
Flip4Mac WMV [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 202.25 GB
Destinations:
LaCie [Local]
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 137
Oldest backup: 2012-11-06 01:52:34 +0000
Last backup: 2015-01-09 03:00:42 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 999.86 GB > (Disk used 202.25 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
8% mds
2% WindowServer
1% coreaudiod
1% iTunes
0% fontd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
232 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
206 MB com.apple.MediaLibraryService
180 MB iTunes
137 MB softwareupdated
129 MB Safari
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
463 MB Free RAM
1.98 GB Active RAM
1.15 GB Inactive RAM
676 MB Wired RAM
4.59 GB Page-ins
4 MB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Jan 8, 2015, 07:42:52 AM Self test - passed
Well the wworst thing I see is that you've got the Genio malware installed, but I'm not sure that would slow you down. AdwareMedic http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php will find and remove it for you, or you can do it manually Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support
Remove Genio and see if things improve. If not post back with exactly what you're noticing is slow.
Thanks for your help Mike. I've already removed Genio. Is it because of the Yosemite OS that it takes a while for my Mac to boot up?
I don't know if I noticed longer boot times whenI upgraded to Yosemite, but I RARELY reboot my mac, I just put it to sleep and almost never restart it. I did shut it down tonight because I'm getting ready to install an SSD in the optical bay, so I'll pay attention to how long it takes to start tomorrow.
You might want to boot into your Recovery partition (Command-R) and run Disk Utility to repair your boot drive, there might be some repairs that DU can handle.
iMac
