How to make os x feel faster on a old computer

These are the exact things i did to increase os x's speed a lot. First I removed all the extra menu bar thingies, like the ichat menu and the displays menu,these slowed the login procudure alot. Secondly I put all my files into folders that were on the desktop, this helped increase speed by having to load less files. The thirdly I took many of the extra Icons off the dock. All of this with a repair permissions and updated prebindings increased it alot for my beige g3 500 mhz. With the dock I also turned off animated app openings. The biggest thing was I put on the Dark Glass (version 1) theme via Theme Changer. Even though menus and junk are all transparent I noticed a huge huge HUGE speed increase over the aqua gui.

I just thought this would help anyone with an older computer out.

just my 5 cents

Ever since I did all of this os x uses less ram as well. Before On average I would have around 170 megs available, but after all this I have around 200 megs. This is a big difference because I only use 352 megs of ram.

Also, regular non admit accounts generally run faster, but its not that big of a difference.

 

Lets jsut say in the regular aqua gui my big ol safari bookmark menu takes on average 7 seconds to display, but with the theme it takes around 3-4

 

What are you talking about, on my dual (with 1 gig ram) i ALWAYS have atl east 512 megs free

[EDIT: here is a screenshot of top:

 

That was on my beige, not on my dual.

 

Not true, the aqua gui is simply a few pictures in the system directory, that is IT. Replacing those it not actually a hack. And that is all that themer's do (well the good ones). Is switching my desktop picture a hack in your opinion, well occording to your opinion up i quoted it is. Switching a desktop picture is simply changing which picture the system uses, which is what themers do (like i said before, the good ones).

 

I recommened themechanger, http://themechanger.sourceforge.net . There is no enablind or anything, it does exactly as its told, to simply switch a few graphics. It is hard to tell the diff between between a good theme and bad one, i recommened to just dl the theme and try it out.

Ah yes and the guy from before, the graphics that themechanger switch is System>library>frameworks>carbon.framework>frameworks>hitoolbox.framework>resources>extra.rsrc
That is the file that EVERY theme changer must switch to change the aqua theme. I really do not see how that is a hack. The diff between bad and good is bad requires you to enable something or do some funky thing, but good simply does as its told. Actually also by your def. updating the carbon lib or anything in the system would be having a non regular os x install, because it alters files.

wait shapeshifter is a usanity product, DO NOT USE IT, anything made by them i really really really go against.

 

How does it override the window manager, it simply replaces 1 single file for the human interface guideline framework, that is it, there is no window manager involved.

The HI framework has absolutely nothing to do with the manager, it is totally seperate from the manager. The manager does not give a crap what the rsrc file has in it, as long as its in correct format.

A true hack harms the system/program and its enviroment, but changing the extra.rsrc file does not (unless its in incorrect format, but you have o be pretty dumb to do that).

Im done arguing with you. Attempting to install slackware 9.1 on vpc.....this is going to be so much fun </sarcasm>

 

Actually i had my dual at once point running ydl 3.01, running 10.3 with mol, which is running vpc (red hat 9) which is running windows xp with WINE which is running basilisk ii (performa 550 rom, os 7.6). Does this count?

 

Well MOL does not emulate, it runs mac os at full speed (or at least 99% of the speed). And virtual pc running red hat...well vpc is slow anyways. By the time it got down to winxp it was starting to get kind of unacceptably slow. Then again winxp has so much eye candy..ya know wut i mean. ANd baslisk ii ran pretty well, well it can only emulate a 33 mhz 68030 so there was no reason for it to be any slower. It really sucked, this was pretty hard to manipulate and only lasted about 4 minutes until os x had a kernel panic somehow and crashed mol (im tryin to figure that one out). When I get a g5 (or g6) in a few years im gonna try it again

When i get my dual back together again i will post some screenshots if you like (if i can do this again...)...(i had to work on some things after we had a bad power surge when we had the last lightning storm..a few chips on the board fried and after my last experience with apple support i am never letting them touch another computer (first time i got it back...got wrong comp, second tiem got it back without video card or hd's, third time it stll did not work...fourth time it came back working and apple gave me a 30 dollar certificate thingy for itunes, prabably to avoid a suit))

Boy..we got off topic real fast....the best way to speed up os X is to get lots and lots of ram...