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Mac booting up/saving data REAL slow - please help!
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1476061" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>There could be a number of things that are causing the slow downs. Taking 3 minutes to boot is definitely unacceptable. See if you can follow along here:</p><p></p><p>1. Remove - completely uninstall any and all anti virus software. There are no viruses in the wild that can infect a Mac. Some trojans and malware yes. But you can avoid those by safe and smart computing.</p><p></p><p>2. Remove any Mac "cleanup" utilities you may have installed. Again, uninstall them completely. The only Mac cleanup and maintenance tool we recommend is the free OnyX utility which you can download from <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>3. Run a check on your hard drive: Boot to your Recovery partition by holding down the command and R keys as soon as you hear the boot sound. Enter Disk Utility and do a verify and repair for the hard drive. Also repair permissions while you're at it.</p><p></p><p>4. Open System Preferences and click on "Users & Groups". Now click on the "Login Items" tab to see what programs are starting when you boot your iMac. If there are some that you don't need, click on the small lock, enter your password, then highlight which startup item you don't want and press the small minus button at the bottom of the box.</p><p></p><p>Report back the results of all the above. Also keep in mind that Mountain Lion requires more resources to run than did Snow Leopard. Your machine is beginning to show its age although it should certainly perform better than what you state.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1476061, member: 46727"] There could be a number of things that are causing the slow downs. Taking 3 minutes to boot is definitely unacceptable. See if you can follow along here: 1. Remove - completely uninstall any and all anti virus software. There are no viruses in the wild that can infect a Mac. Some trojans and malware yes. But you can avoid those by safe and smart computing. 2. Remove any Mac "cleanup" utilities you may have installed. Again, uninstall them completely. The only Mac cleanup and maintenance tool we recommend is the free OnyX utility which you can download from [URL="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx"]here[/URL]. 3. Run a check on your hard drive: Boot to your Recovery partition by holding down the command and R keys as soon as you hear the boot sound. Enter Disk Utility and do a verify and repair for the hard drive. Also repair permissions while you're at it. 4. Open System Preferences and click on "Users & Groups". Now click on the "Login Items" tab to see what programs are starting when you boot your iMac. If there are some that you don't need, click on the small lock, enter your password, then highlight which startup item you don't want and press the small minus button at the bottom of the box. Report back the results of all the above. Also keep in mind that Mountain Lion requires more resources to run than did Snow Leopard. Your machine is beginning to show its age although it should certainly perform better than what you state. [/QUOTE]
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