This release adds the ability to check for updates automatically.
SMARTReporter 2.2.5: warns of ATA drive failure before it happens. This release adds a startup routine that verifies and corrects ownership and permissions on "/private/tmp" and "/Library/Application Support" directories and fixes potential bug causing problems with font caches on Mac OS X 10.4.9.
13) Use GrandPerspective to visualize used disk space to find where and what is taking up the most space and whether or not you should free some space up.Cocktail 3.7.5: (Tiger Edition) general purpose system modify/repair utility. 12) use Rember to test your system memory's health. 11) use system tweaking programs such as the free programs TinkerTool and Deeper. 10) Go through your system logs to see if there are any problems that need fixing that are causing performance issues. 9) Use the Activity Monitor to find and stop any programs you are not using that are consuming too much resources. 8) Use the Disk Utility to check the health of your partitions and fix any problems. 7) If you are running bittorrent program tweak your settings so that your system is less overloaded.
4) Update your host file to block unnecessary ads by using a pre-compiled block list such as the ones at 5) Use flashblock in your browser 6) Disable all browsers addon's and re-enable them one by one to see if any of them are slowing your system or browser to a crawl. 3) Turn off unused services that run at start-up. 2) Mac OS X pre-loads default programs for the files on your desktop to open those files faster, so delete or move any unnecessary files and folders on your desktop. So the feeling is that JUNK just gets clogged in my system over the course of the day.Ī few things to increase speed are the following: 1) Remove widgets in Dashboard. Chrome sometimes gives up on opening web pages (and asks me to kill them), opening MENUS is slow as hell (wait 10 seconds for a menu to open). At the beginning of the work day, speed is good. This is also the case when I have like four apps I typically use open - Pages, Chrome, Things, and Papers. I have to reboot otherwise i really can't run it. However, if, at the end of a day of working or something like 8 hours of uptime, I quit all my apps and run World of Warcraft, shit is sloooooow. For example, if I reboot, and start world of warcraft as the only running up, everything run smoothly. Things tend to slow down over the course of the day. UPDATE: People are asking for a clear example that expresses how stuff slows down.
It took 5 seconds to list the apps (77 files there). I don't have a lot of applications aside from the default ones. I went to the finder and press cmd-shift-N to get a new window. I've been running my Mac for 2 hours today. ** FINAL UPDATE **: I backed up, wiped, and reinstalled my machine.
But anybody know a good way to find out if there are any loose processes out there? Or how to diagnose the problem? Thanks. Seems like the HD is always chugging on something. It seems it's taking forever to do its thing. I bought a 2.8 Ghz Intel Core Duo iMac two years ago and, in the last few months, it's just getting slower and slower.