“My Mac Is Running Slow” – Not Anymore
When you should know your Mac needs a clean up
Have you ever had to visit an Apple Customer Service Center only to exclaim, “My Mac is running slow”? Owning a Mac for a year or more gives rise to a series of problems that if not nipped in the bud in time can prove to be catastrophic. Mac users observe very noticeable changes in the processing speed and response rate of their Mac with time with applications taking a lot longer to load.
At times, processing gets so frustratingly slow that it takes as much as 30 seconds for the Mac to complete as simple a task as switching between two or more active applications. Incensed Mac users can, under such circumstances only hold their head in their hands and wait for their Mac to respond. Or they can try and diagnose it to check why it has become slow and rusty.
Things to do instead of complaining “My Mac is running slow”
Cleaning up your Mac is the best solution to sluggish and rusty processing. Here are some simple steps that you can follow to optimize its performance:
1. Free Your Hard-drive of Unnecessary Data –The first thing you need to do to is to check the available free space on your disk drives. Fully loaded hard-drives can slow down your Mac to a crawl and also consume a greater amount of virtual memory. Therefore, it will really help if you free up any disk space that can possibly be reclaimed. Unnecessary applications are the first things that need to be deleted. They take up huge space on storage devices and are practically useless for the Mac user. Moreover, these applications have dedicated logs and records in system folders which eat up virtual memory of the Mac. Properly uninstalling these applications will therefore benefit your Mac in more than way. Therefore, it is imperative that you delete all unnecessary files that you think no longer serve your purpose. It is also worth your gain to delete caches, logs, cookies and browsing history as they also take much space.
2. Activity Monitor – The integrated Activity Monitor of Mac can be very resourceful tool when you want to optimize performance. It allows easy access to all the active system processes and third-party applications that are running in the background. The Activity Monitor lets you check applications and processes that are of no particular use to your Mac. You can end applications and processes using this program without wasting much time. The sophisticated program also allows you to stop processes from running at startup.
3. Do Some Maintenance – You can make use of Mac’s integral Disk Utility servicing tool to ensure that your disks are in excellent condition. Disk Utility tool checks for permission, repairs damaged sectors and identifies lost clusters. The tool is a quick and easy way of repairing your hard-drive to ensure optimized performance. However, while you are running the Disk Utility tool, make sure that no heavy-duty applications and processes are running in the background.