iBook G4 running extremely slow

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Good evening, all.

I am new to Macs - been using an iBook for the last three months.

Anyhow, my iBook, over the last few days, has been going extremely slow - opening applications takes longer than it did a week back. It seems sluggish - if that makes sense. When I reboot it, it takes a long time for it load up.

My system specs:
G4 1.42
1GB Ram
100 GB HDD

Is there something I can do/run/check to see what is causing this?

Thanks in advance!

- Pete
 
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What's loading at startup?

/Library/StartupItems/
/System/Library/StartupItems/
System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items

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Any apps doing logging of any kind? Does this happen when the internet is unplugged? Are you automounting network drives?
 
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Thanks for the reply!

in /library/startupitems, I've got one folder:
Nleac

in /system/library/startupitems:

Apache
AppleShare
Appservices
Authserver
Crashreporter
Disks
Fibrechannel
IFCStart
IPServices
Metadata
NetworkTime
NFS
NIS
Printing Services
RemotedesktopAgent
SNMP

And in system prefs, accounts

LCCDaemon

Any apps doing logging of any kind? Does this happen when the internet is unplugged? Are you automounting network drives

No logging that I know of - it doesn't matter if I am online or not - I do mount a network share, but manually, it's not needed that often.


Thanks!
 
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Did you repair permissions?
 
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Yeah, I tried that, but no luck.

Any other ideas?

Thank!
 
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Have you run cron jobs?
If not download a tool like OnyX (Versiontracker.com) and run the maintenance scripts to clear out some old logs etc.
 

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