Since computers are
electronic cum digital machines, the performance of every machine
relies on its embedded components and the way it is used. Similarly,
a computer (whether Windows or Mac) comes across performance issues
after running for a long period due to a slew of reasons.
Mac OS X is termed as an
excellent computer operating system because of its pleasant GUI
(Graphical User Interface), high-class hardware components, and
unparalleled data processing speed. Despite these excellent features,
Mac OS X users face performance issues and complain, for example, “My
Mac is running at a Snail’s pace. How can I get it speed up?”
However, delving deep into the problem introduces the causes of Mac
crawling instead of running. These causes are none other than the
system waste accumulated in different corners of the Mac machine.
Therefore, in order to speed up Mac, you must clean up
system’s waste accumulated in the following system areas:
Clean up Mac Hard Drive
Hard drive is the major
source of memory on a computer; however, the performance of a
computer is inversely proportional to the amount of data stored on
its hard drive (i.e. more the amount of data stored on a hard drive,
the poorer will be its performance). Today, computers are available
with huge data storage capacity (i.e. 500GB, 1TB, and more) that
facilitates storing large amount of data and installing so many
applications concurrently. However, more the amount of free space
available on a hard drive, the better is its performance.
Therefore, to let a
computer perform significantly well, make sure every Mac volume has
at least 10% of its capacity as free space.
Removing Login items to Get Accelerated Startup
Some applications create
startup execution actions for themselves when you install them. You
might have noticed that some applications start up automatically
whenever your Mac boots to desktop. These self-executing applications
are termed as Login or Startup items. Every time your Mac will boot,
these startup actions will consume RAM for their execution and
processor to process this execution. As a result, Mac’s startup
time increases.
In order to speed up
Mac machine, you can remove these Login items here: Apple menu
> System Preferences > User & Groups. Select your user
name at the left. Now, go to Login items tab. Click to
check the checkbox in front of an item and click remove (-) to delete
it.
Removing Temporary Internet Files
When you surf the
Internet, a slew of temporary files download automatically on your
Mac or by the web browser itself, which self-allocate processor and
RAM for repeated executions. Because of which, System’s resources
remain busy unnecessarily.
Remove all such temporary
files, cookies, browser’s history, stored username and passwords,
etc. within Safari browser. On Safari browser go to Safari
menu and choose Reset Safari. A message box will appear to
notify you what is going to be deleted and you need to click Erase
button over there.
Clean up iChat log files
Mac OS X has a built-in
chat application, i.e. iChat that stores all your chat logs in an
iChat named folder in Documents folder on your Mac. For this,
you need to launch iChat, and then follow Preferences >
Messages > Save Chat Transcripts To. Choose a folder to save
all your chat logs. By storing all your chat messages in text format,
iChat may help you remind your conversations. However, imagine the
size of iChat folder if you had exchanged media files (i.e. images
and more).
You can delete these
iChat logs in order to improve iChat speed and save disk space.
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