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Remember how fast was your Mac for the first time after purchase? He instantly downloadable, smooth open web sites and applications? Over time, your Mac is filled with a variety of applications, system updates, documents, photographs and lots of other files that cause the slowing effect. If you want to make the Mac the same high-spirited as it was when you first took it out of the box - we have for you some useful tips.
1. Clear the Startup list
Most of the apps you install are automatically added to the list of startup and whenever turn on or restart the poppy, the system is forced to spend resources on something to run all these applications and service. As long as their little - they do not have a significant impact on performance, but sooner or later the time comes.
Fortunately, OS X is very convenient to control and regulate all of this "farm":
- Open System Preferences and go to the section Users and Groups.
- Choose your account in the list on the left and open the tab login Items.
- Carefully scan the list and leave only those applications that are really necessary to you immediately after the system startup. All other ruthlessly remove therefrom by highlighting and clicking –.
2. Is updated to the latest version of OS X
Your Mac must be updated independently, but do not be amiss to make sure that the computer is running on the latest OS. This can easily be checked with the Mac App Store. Just open the app and go to the tab updating. The icon will be the number of available updates that you can download both together and individually. For the future, do not be amiss to check and activate automatically download and install updates, see App Store system settings.
3. We put things in order on the disc
One of the best ways to prevent the system performance is to clean your hard drive from various files that you no longer need. To the category of such files include all kinds of logs, caches, temporary files, extensions, duplicate files, and much, much more. To find and delete the file garbage can resort to the use of special applications or use Disk Utility.
- Run Disk Utility and select your hard drive in the left menu
- Go to the tab First aid and click the button Check, and then Correct.
- The system will scan and fix the errors, if any are found.
After that, check your home folder and other folders on the disc for the content cache or temporary files which are no longer needed. If you do not want to delve into the depths of the file system - it is better to use profiling tool.
4. Check voracious processes
If you notice a drop in performance during operation of a poppy - through the monitoring system can easily determine which application consumes all resources.
- open the monitoring system from the folder Programs — Utilities.
- Switching between tabs CPU and Memory and viewing running processes, find the application that consume excessive amounts of resources.
- If you find the process spends more than 90% (non-root process) - feel free to complete it using the button To complete.
5. Remove unused localizations files
On each poppy has a lot of unused language files. Usually we use Russian and English, but the rest of localization, which developers supply their applications, and remain on the hard drive "dead weight". They can be removed by hand (a very tedious process) or use some special application. For example, the same CleanMyMac It knows how to do it and when cleaning is always, among other things "rubbish", scans the file system, including, and for unused language files.
6. Clean up the desktop
Some users prefer to keep the desktop files and shortcuts to applications, considering that it is very convenient. Not really. Since the system has to handle all of these connections, over time, this approach is in keeping and organize your workspace can have a negative impact on the decline in performance and responsiveness system. Therefore, remove all unused icons and move documents and files to the appropriate folders. A better use our guidance to achieve the Zen desktop.
7. disable widgets
Widgets - This tiny application located on a dedicated desktop. You can add to any number of different widgets, like a virtual aquarium, an interactive calendar or weather widget friendly. At that time, some of them decide to useful tasks and help you, many people simply consume resources, thereby slowing down the system performance. Therefore, a revision of its Dashboard and disable or remove any unwanted widgets, which you do not use - this will free memory and increase the response of the system.
All tips privednnye longer relevant for owners of older cars with poppies or insufficient RAM. slowing effect on newer computers will be almost imperceptible or perceptible already at the most advanced stages (monitoring tools). But in any case, preventing and restoring order has never never stopped anyone. ;)
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