Mac Slowing Down?

I am still relatively new to Mac OS's, since I just got my Macbook Pro in December. I don't know if it is my imagination, but my mac seems to be gradually slowing down, and I have no idea why! I have Onyx but am afraid to use it because I don't want it to wipe out all of my custom settings or anything like that. Is there a program (or at least configuration of Onyx) that I can use to clean out and speed up my Mac? Any help would be great!

Try running disk utility : )

All I can do there is repair permissions which I just did. Will that do what I need it to do? Such as remove the excess crap from my Mac?

cleanapp is good,im using it just now,im having that same problem,but my mac isnt gradually slowing down,i installed about three programs yesterday and when i shut it down it took a real long while,and when i turned it back on just now it took me about ten minutes to do anything,im very anoyyed because i dont think thats suppossed to be happening,im gonna try some spyware removals to see if thats whats wrong

im using cleanapp right now to download stuff i dont need,but since i bought a used computer,theres a lot of programs here that i dont even know what their for...im gonna have to google em all to see if they can be of use,sigh!and i was suppossed to be making a school project for tomorrow,i hate these things

Yea it's a good idea to not install applications you rarely use. I'm very careful with applications now and only install what I use. Like I want Office 2008 but I have iwork so no point in having two. Also some programs like photoshop are huge. I want that too but I'm rethinking it as I have another graphics program which is doing the job for me

Good luck and hope your Mac is faster again.

Run maintenance scrips in Onyx. There are caches and such that can use a clearing and rebuilding once in a while.

OnyX will make a big difference. It will not wipe out your custom settings but it will noticeably speed up your machine. Give it a whirl. It is safe.

Try reading the following article, it should help:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

I'm very new to Onyx and two years new to Mac.

I too was a tad apprehensive about screwing up. But I figured that seeing as I had just backed up my machine using Time Machine and read everything on Onyx there was really nothing else to do but set it going. To be honest? nothing bad like I though would happen did happen. And my machne is a lot happier thanks to it.

im gonna try some spyware removals to see if thats whats wrong

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There is no spyware for OS X.