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DESPERATE: My Mac keeps freezing and lagging.
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<blockquote data-quote="TeeJaco" data-source="post: 1330112" data-attributes="member: 224833"><p>I had been noticing for about a week that my computer was starting to get a little too hot and lagged rarely for brief seconds. I did some research and found out my kernal_task was taking up a lot of RAM, so I promised myself when I get home in a month I'd upgrade it with what I could. However, the real issue started about two days ago. Everything has basically come to a standstill. It takes about 5 minutes to start up my computer, <strong>everything</strong> lags or freezes and crashes. It froze 10 times in my writing a 4-lined email which my computer then proceeded to send out each time it froze, so the poor receiver got a new piece of e-mail every 10 seconds. It only froze for about 20 seconds, then loosened up. Now, everything freezes and I have to make a hard reboot (been done about 5 times today and it's only 1.00pm). I have used MacKeeper to clean everything out, I removed Microsoft Office, Steam, Firefox and whatever else I could that seemed to be having issues thru AppCleaner and STILL I am astonished I could open Safari to communicate my issue to the world because none of those steps helped anything!</p><p>I don't have access to a Genius Bar so I can't take it in right now and I'm absolutely at my wits end and desperate for help. I have a big deadline for a design collection due in a week and I can barely open Illustrator. ANY advice is appreciated. <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Grimmace.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Grimmace:" title="Grimmace :Grimmace:" data-shortname=":Grimmace:" /></p><p></p><p>Macbook Pro OS X 10.6.8 </p><p>2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Due </p><p>4GB 1067 MHz DDR3</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeeJaco, post: 1330112, member: 224833"] I had been noticing for about a week that my computer was starting to get a little too hot and lagged rarely for brief seconds. I did some research and found out my kernal_task was taking up a lot of RAM, so I promised myself when I get home in a month I'd upgrade it with what I could. However, the real issue started about two days ago. Everything has basically come to a standstill. It takes about 5 minutes to start up my computer, [B]everything[/B] lags or freezes and crashes. It froze 10 times in my writing a 4-lined email which my computer then proceeded to send out each time it froze, so the poor receiver got a new piece of e-mail every 10 seconds. It only froze for about 20 seconds, then loosened up. Now, everything freezes and I have to make a hard reboot (been done about 5 times today and it's only 1.00pm). I have used MacKeeper to clean everything out, I removed Microsoft Office, Steam, Firefox and whatever else I could that seemed to be having issues thru AppCleaner and STILL I am astonished I could open Safari to communicate my issue to the world because none of those steps helped anything! I don't have access to a Genius Bar so I can't take it in right now and I'm absolutely at my wits end and desperate for help. I have a big deadline for a design collection due in a week and I can barely open Illustrator. ANY advice is appreciated. :Grimmace: Macbook Pro OS X 10.6.8 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Due 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 [/QUOTE]
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