Many times your
Mac system might slow down when you put some extra data on the hard drive. It
is always beneficial for you to clean up your Mac at regular interval of time
in order to run multiple processes smoothly.
Today, in
this article I will share with you some of the cool tips and tricks through
which you can easily cleanup your Mac system without spending any money. So, take a cup of coffee and read the
below mentioned tips of cleaning up Mac OS.
1. Clean the Mac Desktop:
This is the
very first and most important step in order to improve the efficiency of a Mac
OS X. Desktop is the first screen, which the system has to load for completing
the booting process. So, if lesser number of icons will be present on your
screen, your system will boot fast and save your valuable time. I suggest you
to either delete them or put them in a separate folder so that OS of Mac doesn't start them at booting time. This will ensure that your system will
improve and load at a faster speed.
2. Manage your startup items:
When you
install any software on your Mac, they automatically change your system startup
settings and they will load when your system will boot. Depending upon the
setting, it may either become helpful for you or even slow down your system. And,
if you left such small applications default, then they consume a lot of your
system resources and become the main reason for slowness of the system. If you
are a Mac OS X 10.10 user, then you can do this by going to System Preferences > System > Users &
Groups > Login items and then uncheck those applications which you don’t
want to run at the boot time.
3. Clean your hard drive:
Mac uses the
free space of your hard drive as a “virtual
memory” which plays a crucial role in the overall system performance. An
over filled hard drive can't perform quickly or execute multiple application
smoothly. To get through this, one of the best ways is to free up your hard drive
in order to make room for the “virtual memory”.
For cleaning
up your hard drive, you can empty your system log files, empty trash and other
unnecessary applications that are useless for you.
4. Check Activity Monitor:
There are
times when you don’t know which process is taking more memory and CPU usage,
then Apple Activity Monitor comes
handy. With the help of Activity Monitor, you can easily check which process is
taking max CPU or RAM usage.
5. Embrace Mac cleaning utility
tools:
This is the simplest
way of optimizing and speeding up the Mac system. Here you can take the help of
a utility tool such as OnyX. This software regularly maintains of your system and helps it in
running smoothly.
6. Upgrade your hardware:
If your system doesn't speed up despite applying all the above-mentioned tricks, then the last
option is to upgrade your system hardware. You can look out for SSD, RAM and
even large capacity hard drives.
That’s all
from my side. I hope the above written tips will be helpful for you in speeding
up your Mac OSX.