Intel Mac :: It's Running So Slow - How To Clean Up
May 18, 2012How can I clean up my Mac? Our desktop is running so slowly! I think it's from all the crap my daughter is downloading...
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OS X :: Imac Running Slow / Can't Clean
May 23, 2010I am an absolute Mac virgin I have never used one before this is my first experience with them. We bought a imac for our daughter purely for the virus free factor and the computer just looked so good the graphics etc.
Anyway we have had the system now for over a year we all love it and have worked out the basics. My problem is that lately it has become very sluggish and jumps out of Safari a lot, Safari closes unexpectantly. It takes ages for even Word or anything to come up. What can I do to clean it up and make it run faster again. What do I go into.... I need the hows, wheres and whats?
OS X Yosemite :: Clean Install Running Very Slow?
Nov 30, 2014I recently had a new hard drive put in my 2007 iMac and have been experiencing some problems. I did a clean install of mavericks, then upgraded to Yosemite and the machine has been very laggy, finder and all programs included. I saw a few posts about FileVault being an issue but I checked and it is turned off.
I should also add that the machine was running fine on Mavericks, slowness only started after the Yosemite upgrade.
Problem description:yosemite running extremely slow EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)Report generated November 30, 2014 at 9:08:54 AM CST Hardware Information: ℹ️ iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) (Verified) iMac - model: iMac7,1 1 2.4
GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core 3 GB RAM Upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok BANK 1/DIMM1 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz ok Bluetooth: Old -
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MacBook Pro :: System Running Slow - Need To Clean Install
Sep 13, 2009So I upgraded to Snow Leopard about a week ago, and my Macbook pro seems a little slower and it beachballs now and again. I am wondering if I should do a clean install of Leopard and use that for a while, until SL is updated a few times, or maybe clean install and then put SL onto that. Which do you think is best? My other questions are as follows:
I was doing TimeMachine backups when I was using Leopard, and these have carried on when I was using SL. If I clean install, will I be able to choose just to copy my files over from the TM backup? Is there a way to do a clean install of SL, or do I need to do the Leopard install and then upgrade to SL again.
Intel Mac :: Slow Running - Steps For Making It Smoothly Running?
Mar 21, 2012my 4 year old IMac 2.4ghz intel core 2 duo with 2gb running 10.7.3 has been running really slow since I installed photoshop CS4 and upgraded to lion ( I have 137gb of free space on hard drive) I mean it wont quit out of photoshop I always have to do a force quit and most applications run really slow. Do I need a new computer , what should I go for to have a smooth running mac?Was thinking of a new IMac 27-inch: 2.7GHz with 4gb memory.
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac - How To Clean Up Mac, It Is Getting Very Slow
May 31, 2012I have noticed that my MAC is really taking a long time to load programs & on-line content. Is there a way to clean up whats on here? I remember with the old PC you could defrag and do a disk clean up? Is there such a thing with my IMAC? It is 4 years old & I am running the latest software versions.
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May 5, 2012my imac is about 3 years old and I do have some video's and pictures on it, but it shouldn't be hanging so often and for so long.
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Intel Mac :: Computer Is Running Very Slow?
Apr 2, 2012My computer is running very slow. Beach ball all the time. I have about 35mb hard drive free space and 4 MB RAM. I monitor with Activity Monitor. Everytime I open a program, like Safari, Adobe, Activity Monitor shows they use up to 99% CPU. It goes downafter a little while to a small perecntage, until I try to do something with them. Then many times, it will jump back up to high %CPU and give me the beachball and run very slow. This is a new thing. Does anyone know what may be the problem with my computer?
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Apr 9, 2012My computer has been running slow taking along tome doing anything
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Intel Mac :: 2008 Running Very Slow?
May 23, 2012My 2008 iMac started running very slowly yesterday, taking ages to start up and showing the spinning wheel on the desktop for ages making it impossible to do anything. It particularly doesn't like running iTunes or Spotify and got worse when I plugged my iPod in. Another thing I can think of is I downloaded an album from iTunes yesterday and this seemed to coincide with it having a breakdown. Chrome is also running slow and I get frequent unresponsive script messages.
I'm running OS X 10.5.8 and have upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1. I recently installed the Flashback removal software.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Intel Mac :: Why Computer Is Running Very Slow
May 23, 2012My computer is running very slow
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Jun 7, 2012My iMac is running incredibly slow. Takes 5 to 7 minutes to load just about everything. I can't get on Internet because then my wifi shuts down.
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Intel Mac :: Its Running Super Slow
Jun 16, 2012Got a 21.5 inch iMac desktop summer of 2010. I think it is the base model. All other info I can't get to on "about my mac" because my Mac is running like frozen molasses.
Anyway, last few days I thought the internet/Safari was running kind of slow. Pages would load, I'd get stuff done, but I just thought it was being glitchy. Then last night, my Mac would all out freeze. Rebooting took at least 5 minutes, and it doesn't matter what I try to use (chrome, firefox, safari), pages just won't load at all or freeze if I am able to make it to Google/Facebook/etc. Now the computer just sits at the blue screen part of the startup, and I had to just finally hard shutdown since I am not getting anywhere to even run a virus scan.
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Intel Mac :: Running Very Slow And Sometimes Won't Start
Jul 1, 2012I have an iMac intel from 2009.. the computer is used only for simple internet exploring, word documents, emails... etc. The hard drive has 140GB of free space, and I have erased the free disk space with 1 pass.The computer runs SO slow to the point where it's almost unusable. To me, it feels like a memory issue, even though the programs that are used require very minimal memory... I tried ejecting the RAM stick blowing on it and popping it back in, but no luck... It has 1GB of ram total.
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IMac Intel :: Running Slow Even When No Programs Are In Use?
Aug 8, 2009even when i dont have any programs actually running i get the stupid coloured spinning circle and i can hear the computer thinking like ive got 20 programs running at the same time , kind of like the windows CPU usage stuck on 100% problem.
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intel core duo
Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Intel Mac :: It Has Suddenly Started Running Slow?
Feb 15, 2012Is there something I can do such as a clean up?
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Mar 29, 2012I tried to stream a movie on Netflix, the website opened just fine but the video won't play. I tried another website and no video. When I went to the dock to get to my utilities it looks like the graphics are skipping and freezing. It's lagging a good five seconds when I try to open the applications folder is lags and freezes. Not sure what is going on, not very IT oriented but I'm not an idiot all my apps at closed out and it's still happened. I verified and repaired the disk permissions and everything said it was fine.It's an iMac about a year of 500 gb and 4 gb ram?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Computer Running Slow When It Starts
Apr 8, 2012error code 4 mot /1/40000003: HDD having problem starting my imac pc takes about 20 times before i can turn it on.Getting a gray or white screen with error message turn off your computer by holding down the power button and restarting your pc computer running slow when it starts imac 2006 2 GB intel based snow leopard 10.6.8
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), mackeeper
Intel Mac :: Photoshop Keeps Crashing And Running Really Slow
May 8, 2012I have an IMac with Mac os X 10.7.3, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB of memory, this should be plenty to run Photoshop with no problems , however Photoshop keep crashing and being really slow.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Running Slow - How To Restore Its Speed
May 14, 2012My iMac is very slow suddenly. How do I restore its speed? I have emptied cache and reset Safari... what else can I do?
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May 28, 2012My imac - Running - 10.5.8 Processor - 2.5 GHz Intel core duo 2 Memory - 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM I run logic studio on it in my studio. For a good few months its been always having the ''system overload'' message come up on logic so ive been using my laptop instead but i really need to use my imac now as ive just finished builing my studio. About a month ago the memory on the Mac HD was completly full except 1GB. Ive been through deleting almost everything! and trasffering it all onto my new 3TB external HD. Yet still the memory on the Mac HD is still used mostly up;Capacity - 237.57 GB Avaliable - 24.86 GB Used - 207.71 GB My questions are, how do i free up more space? I can't seem to find much saved on my computer anymore only my itunes music which is no more than 10GB. Surley Logic Pro and a few other programs dont take up loads of space.My other question is how can i speed up my computer? so it doesnt come up with the ''system overload'' messages?
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8), logic studio
Intel Mac :: It Running Slow Despite Software Updates
Jun 22, 2012My MAC OS X (10.6.8) is runing very slow. Plenty of free memory and assume RAM .. where do I start with the problem finding and solution
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Running Slow On Leopard 10.5.8 - 4 GB RAM And Plenty Of HD Space
Feb 19, 2012I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 now and haven't upgraded my OS in years, and my computer is running slow. I have 4 GB RAM and plenty of hard drive space left.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), added RAM
Intel Mac :: Is Running Slow And The Hard Drive Will Not Stop?
Apr 17, 2012My Imac has been running super slow and the hard drive will not stop writing. Current Specs running 10.7.3, 2.8 Ghz Intel i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. I have had it for less than a year bought refurbed from the online store, I wiped the hard drive once before but it did not help at all, I am currently running parallels but the problem existed before that. I also have an external hard drive but makes no difference in whether it is hooked up or not
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Apr 25, 2012I have had my 27" Imac for about 2 years now and I am starting to have problems with it running slow. Iphoto and itunes and sometimes safari stop responding and then crash, I then get a problem report which has pages of information, what can I do? do I need to reload the OS?
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May 3, 2012my imac is running slow & takes a long time logging on, anyone knows why this happens?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Computer Goes Slow When Running SketchUp/ Layout
Jun 16, 2012I'm using an iMac and find it difficult when running SketchUp/ Layout. It takes up to 5 to 6 mins to load a Layout file or it re-calculate and halt every few minutes when I am using SketchUp. While waiting for it's re-calculation or loading up, I can still use other softwares normally.
I wonder if it is one of the following problems: -
1. The softwares use massive RAM that my computer don't have? if yes, how can I allocate more RAM for these 2 softwares?
2. My computer is not powerful enough to run rendering softwares, like SketchUp/ Layout?
The following is the spec of my computer, Intel Core i3, 3.06 GHz.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Getting Spinning Colored Ball A Lot - Running Slow
Jun 23, 2012My 24" iMac seems to gets the spinning colored ball a lot, seems it is running slow a lot more than it did before?
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IMAC, Mac OS X (10.5)
Intel Mac :: Running Slow Despite Software Updates / Plenty Of Memory
Jun 22, 2012My Mac is running very slow despite software updates, plenty of memory.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
IMac (Intel) :: Still Running Slow And Crashing After Malware Removal?
Sep 2, 2014Last week I got a malware attack from opening up a Facebook message. This caused my iMac to run very slow and to crash all the time. I ran the latest security update which found and removed the malware itself. But still my iMac is running very slow and crashing when doing two jobs at once.
Any reason as to why?Is it still infected? or has the malware corrupted my hd or memory?
My iMac details:
Version 10.6.8
Processor 3.06
Memory 4gb
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
