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Very slow 2008 mac

Installed 4 gybes ram and upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 OS. System painfully slow and activity monitor usually slows almost all of the ram being used.However, adding up the applications running only accounts for half of the ram. What is using the other half and why dosen't it show? Tried reseting SMC which helped ram for a short time. Both internet and stand alone applications take way too long. Would appreciate any ideas. Thanks. John

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 29, 2015 6:37 PM

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jphayes4 Author

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Jun 19, 2015 5:41 AM in response to seventy one

What would you advise me to do next? Loading a non-internet application like Pages from Iwork takes 30 to 45 seconds. If there is malware do I need a different software program to find it? Thanks. John

seventy one

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Jun 19, 2015 1:37 PM in response to jphayes4

I think you should apply etrecheck again and publish the results. I suspect there is more to be found.

Very slow 2008 mac