Is your slow Mac start up is
irritating? What happens if it become unresponsive? So, maintaining
the Mac computers or notebooks is a very efficient task which needs
to be performed in an effective manner. Lets see some of the main
reasons behind this hurdle and try to rectify it:
Managing StartUp items
At the time of installing apps, these
apps automatically get loaded when you boot up your Mac. So, to
manage your startup items, click on the Apple logo and then System
preferences. Then click on the icon named Users and Groups. After
that choose Login items and remove the items from the list. There is
another way of removing the Startup items manually. Just open a new
Finder window, press Command + Shift + G and type directory path i.e.
/library/startupitems. After doing this, reboot your Mac and analyze
the changes.
Cleaning up the hard drive
Hard drive is the main reason for the
slow Mac startup. Removing old files and unnecessary items will lead
to regain disk space which ultimately results in faster booting of
the system. If there is large amount of data on the hard drive, then
the amount of memory will be lesser for the smooth functioning of the
background applications.
Upgrade RAM and SSD
Upgrading RAM will solve most of the
issues related to slow start up. If your background applications need
more memory to run, so you need to have more RAM to ensure the faster
working of the Mac. It depends completely on the Mac about how much
memory your Mac can support. Just discuss this issue with the
professional as it completely depends upon the applications that you
are using. For graphic editors such
as Adobe Photoshop, usually 4 GB of memory is recommended, but using
more than 4 GB of memory will enhance the overall system speed.
So RAM is a major issue to be discussed. Another extremely important
issue is to replace the hard drive to an SSD. SSD are the smarter
choice for the faster boot up and load time to boost up the
performance.
Corrupt Preferences file
Corrupt preference file is one the
major cause of slow Mac startup. In such a case, delete your corrupt
preference file and relaunch the application. But before deleting the
files, just ensure the Time Machine back up of the data, so that in
case you lost some file, you can easily restore it.
Permission conflict and many widgets
on Dashboard
Widgets on the dashboard uses memory.
So, managing them properly is an efficient task. Repairing
permissions is an important task to be carried on, as it makes the
system slow and sometimes applications runs weirdly also. Every file
in Mac OS X has a set of permissions and permissions can be incorrect
or not according to the guidelines of the operating system. So, to
repair the permissions, one needs to select the Disk Utility first
aid option to repair it.
CPU utilization
If the processor is utilizing lot of
space, it will drastically slow down the Mac. Open the Activity Monitor to analyze the usage history. Just check the culprit, which
are the topmost items and free up the space in CPU.
Older OS X
OS X upgrade is required time to time
to eradicate the chances of slow Mac. If the Mac OS X is updated
frequently, it will surely resolve the issues related to start up.
So, the above points of managing the
Mac ensure the faster speed and reliability. But if still the Mac is
slow then there must be some duplicate files, hidden files etc which
can only be removed with the help of some good software available in
the market. Today, lot of freeware
& shareware software are there to perform this task
in minutes. These software helps to clear all the junk automatically,
reducing the effort to clean up the files. So, try to manage your Mac
effectively for the faster speed.