How to Speed Up Your Slow Mac
Section 1. Find resource hungry processes using Activity Monitor
Step 1. Go to Spotlight Search Pressing cmd + spacebar
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Step 2. Search for Activity Monitor
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Step 3. Activity monitor details five different resources: CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk and Network usage. If your Mac is running slow, then focus mainly on CPU section.
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Step 4. if you see some app is using a lot of CPU power in term of % then you can close it. To close the process: select the process and click on X button on top left corner of the activity monitor screen.
You can either Quit or you can Force Quit if the process got hanged.
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Section 2. Manage Start-up items
Step 1. Go to System Preference or click on the Apple logo on top left and Select Preference
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Step 2. Select Users & Groups
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Step 3. Click on your username. Now click on Login Items and select the programs you don’t immediately need when your Mac starts up, and click the “-” as shown in image below.
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Section 3. Turn off Visual effects
Step 1. Click on System Preference
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Step 2. Open Dock
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Step 3. Click on Minimize windows using and change Genie Effect to Scale Effect
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Step 4. Untick the following boxes: Animate opening applications, Automatically hide and show the Dock as shown in image below
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Section 4. Delete unnecessary add-ons / Extensions
Step 1. Open Safari, click on main menu as shown in pic, Then select Preference
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Step 2. You will find different Tabs for Safari but right now we are going in for Extensions Tab.
Then Select the extension you want to remove
Click Uninstall button.
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Section 5. Reduce Desktop Clutter
Every desktop icon takes up RAM space. Fewer icons – the faster your Mac get.
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Section 6. Clear Cache
Step 1. Go to Finder
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Step 2. Press Shift + cmd + G, a Pop-Up window will appear
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Step 3. Enter the following command into the search box: ~/Library/Caches and click on Go
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Step 4. Press cmd + A to select all files and folders
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Step 5. Press cmd + del or right click on mouse and select Move to Trash
Step 6. You might get a pop-up asking to confirm that you want to delete all of those files, and you’ll need to enter your Mac’s password to complete the action.
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