Mac Running Slow, Won't Shut Down

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Mac Running Slow, Won't Shut Down

Hi, my Macbook Air won't shut down, it's just a black screen with a loading icon on the bottom. It also runs very slow, but it says my internet is 4/4 bars. The internet loads very slowly, and I have to constantly refresh it. Occasionally when I play multiplayer games like Minecraft, I normally get about 60 fps max, and now I only get 24, and sometimes only 12. I have been playing other games like ROBLOX recently, that's when the problem started.

System:

Macbook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)

Processor - 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory - 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB

I also have 239.2 GB on my startup disk, and there is 68.9 GB free. I modified the startup disk a bit.

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 6, 2015 2:59 PM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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May 7, 2015 4:07 AM in response to G4M3FRE3K

FileVault is good to have turned on, but it only protects against an attacker with physical access to your computer, preventing such a person from accessing your data or your system. It will not help with problems shutting down, and turning it on when the Mac is having problems could be a very serious mistake.

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OGELTHORPE

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May 6, 2015 3:25 PM in response to G4M3FRE3K

Download and post an Etrecheck report:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

G4M3FRE3K wrote:

I modified the startup disk a bit.

What did you do?

Ciao.

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G4M3FRE3K Author

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May 6, 2015 5:06 PM in response to G4M3FRE3K

Never mind, actually. I fixed the problem myself. For those of you who need the fix to the problem, I uninstalled my adobe programs because those are CPU hogs. I also saw that I had a spyware virus... so, don't install Splashtop Streamer. Also, I turned on FileVault as well. It takes a while to start your computer, but it's all worth it to get rid of people trying to break in. I modified my computer's startup disk to get more memory a while back before the problem started, so I assume that wasn't part of the problem. It was that darned spyware virus.

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