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'You need to restart your computer' happening all the time
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1145145" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>What did you do?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Open Sys Pref - Network - highlight Airport - make sure you have a check next to 'Show AirPort status on menu bar - click Advanced - remove all networks shown in the box - click OK - close Sys Pref</p><p></p><p>Make sure you are not using a hidden SSID on your router and that you are using WPA or WPA2 encryption - not WEP</p><p></p><p>Click the AirPort icon on the menu bar and rejoin your network.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What does this mean? </p><p>You're seeing the beach ball a little more often?</p><p>It's taking a second or two longer to open apps?</p><p>When you open an app or click on something it's taking several minutes?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What 8 apps? What processor load do those 8 apps require? Safari is loading slow or flash content sites are loading slow? Have you opened up Disk Utility to take a look at your stats to see which app is burning CPU cycles (in Applications - Utilities).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Need a lot more answers as you can see.</p><p></p><p>I am one of the few proponents of defragging OS X around here and I would say it is extremely unlikely that you need to defrag a 3 month old machine. What is the size of your OS X partition and how much free space do you have?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1145145, member: 24160"] What did you do? Open Sys Pref - Network - highlight Airport - make sure you have a check next to 'Show AirPort status on menu bar - click Advanced - remove all networks shown in the box - click OK - close Sys Pref Make sure you are not using a hidden SSID on your router and that you are using WPA or WPA2 encryption - not WEP Click the AirPort icon on the menu bar and rejoin your network. What does this mean? You're seeing the beach ball a little more often? It's taking a second or two longer to open apps? When you open an app or click on something it's taking several minutes? What 8 apps? What processor load do those 8 apps require? Safari is loading slow or flash content sites are loading slow? Have you opened up Disk Utility to take a look at your stats to see which app is burning CPU cycles (in Applications - Utilities). Need a lot more answers as you can see. I am one of the few proponents of defragging OS X around here and I would say it is extremely unlikely that you need to defrag a 3 month old machine. What is the size of your OS X partition and how much free space do you have? [/QUOTE]
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