my computer has slowed down in the last month. I can not have more than 4 tabs open with out it freezing up. I purchased this in 2011 so I do not know the operating system
MacBook Pro
Post an Etrecheck report to preclude the need to ask a dozen additional questions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Read about it here. It contains a link to download EtreCheck. Don't download it from anywhere else (such as may be found by following the results of an Internet search).
okay. How do I do that? Sorry!
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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 and start typing the name.
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.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always 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.
When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
Dtrain66 wrote:
my computer has slowed down in the last month. I can not have more than 4 tabs open with out it freezing up. I purchased this in 2011 so I do not know the operating system
If you are using Safari - Top Sites refresh when the web pages are updated - and they add themselves - if you empty the cache without purging top sites the will just go out and grab everything again - So go through them and edit out the ones (Or all ) that you don't want in there and keep an eye on it.
If you have not shut down your mac - do so - to clear RAM. Clicking on the Apple & About this mac will give you the number version you are on if not the fancy name.
I have noticed that many web sites are adding a lot of animation etc to that first page - so Top Sites may have worked when most pages were static but
now its just refreshing them too much.
my computer has slowed down on the internet in the last month. I can not have more than 3 windows open without it freezing up and having to use force quit
