Your mac is slow at startup. What can you do?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Your mac was fast when you first got it. Now, a few months later, your mac is slow and needs a jump start. There a four steps you can do to get your mac back in the fast lane.
- Unplug any new peripherals one by one. Unplug your iPhone, printer, or other USB or firewire device one by one to see if your mac is faster after each removal. Sometimes, a usb or firewire cable can fail and cause a slow computer.
- Remove any new software. If you just installed Norton for mac or some other multi-layered software, and then your computer slowed down right after, get rid of it. It can be the culprit.
- Remove any unnecessary loading programs. You might need all your programs, but you certainly don’t need them
all to load at startup which can definitely slow down your mac. Press and hold the shift key after logging in to temporarily disable all programs from loading at login. If you computer seems to have more pep, then you’ll need to isolate the slow starting program and remove it. - Your hard drive might be failing. To check this out, go to Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities folder and select your disk and click Verify disk to check for any errors. If you find any errors, you should contact a data recovery specialist or computer repair company to assist immediately so you don’t lose important information.
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want to make a slideshow of just Grandma, you can select Grandma’s face, and then iPhoto does the rest with grouping all of Granny’s photos for you in a folder. This is possible with the new iPhone or GPS-ready cameras. If you have older phones or cameras, you can write in the photo that it’s Granny, and then iPhoto has visual recognition to group the same precious Grandma in the same category.
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You can take a picture of the Internet, application you’re working in, or anything else by pushing the home button and sleep/wake button simultaneously. Then, the screenshot you take will be automatically saved in
your iPhone’s Photos app.
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Let’s start by saying there is no specific disk defragmenter program on the Mac like what comes with Windows. This is because Apple notes that its system doesn’t fragment files. Thus, it doesn’t need to prioritize moving around the fragmented files. If this doesn’t make sense, we’ll back up. Defragmenting a PC is necessary occasionally since files are saved in a fragmented manner. Basically, files are saved in pieces on a first-in basis. Over time, when you use certain programs more than others, such as Internet Explorer or e-mail, you’ll want to re-prioritize these fragmented files to the front of your
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