iMac boot up time slow and slow apps lately

[SuperFreak]

For some reason as of late, my iMac has started booting up a lot slower than it did when I first got it, which, wasn't even that long ago (around 5months-ish).

seems to stay on the grey loading screen for longer than it used to, and once booted up, sits on the desktop for a good min or so without me being able to launch anything, the dock also does not appear for a min or so, and when it does, i'll usually open Chrome, and that just bounces for about 30+ seconds....

Can't use the spotlight, etc. It's happened a lot faster than i expected it too... I mean, wear and tear, over time they get a bit sluggy etc but, I have'nt even had it that long,

Specs:

iMac 21"
OSX 10.9
Late 2013/14 model
8GB RAM
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
1TBHD

I bought it second hand for around 670pounds.

I have 824GN space left, I look after my apple products pretty well... no images, no music, nothing clogging it up.

Really not sure why its rapidly become a lot slower :-(

I did, (un-educatedly) delete a cache file that was to do with applications, it was the largest in file size, 100+MB i think, as a cleaner app showed it up, maybe i should'nt have deleted that, could have made apps slower? but why boot up going slow now?

hope someone can cast some light.


Thanks

 

[rkaufmann87]

For some reason as of late, my iMac has started booting up a lot slower than it did when I first got it, which, wasn't even that long ago (around 5months-ish).

seems to stay on the grey loading screen for longer than it used to, and once booted up, sits on the desktop for a good min or so without me being able to launch anything, the dock also does not appear for a min or so, and when it does, i'll usually open Chrome, and that just bounces for about 30+ seconds....

Can't use the spotlight, etc. It's happened a lot faster than i expected it too... I mean, wear and tear, over time they get a bit sluggy etc but, I have'nt even had it that long,

Specs:

iMac 21"
OSX 10.9
Late 2013/14 model
8GB RAM
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
1TBHD

I bought it second hand for around 670pounds.

I have 824GN space left, I look after my apple products pretty well... no images, no music, nothing clogging it up.

Really not sure why its rapidly become a lot slower :-(

I did, (un-educatedly) delete a cache file that was to do with applications, it was the largest in file size, 100+MB i think, as a cleaner app showed it up, maybe i should'nt have deleted that, could have made apps slower? but why boot up going slow now?

hope someone can cast some light.


Thanks

Please post an EtreCheck report of your system and we can look for obvious issues. You can get EtreCheck by clicking:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

 

[Laserducky]

For some reason as of late, my iMac has started booting up a lot slower than it did when I first got it, which, wasn't even that long ago (around 5months-ish).

seems to stay on the grey loading screen for longer than it used to, and once booted up, sits on the desktop for a good min or so without me being able to launch anything, the dock also does not appear for a min or so, and when it does, i'll usually open Chrome, and that just bounces for about 30+ seconds....

Can't use the spotlight, etc. It's happened a lot faster than i expected it too... I mean, wear and tear, over time they get a bit sluggy etc but, I have'nt even had it that long,

Specs:

iMac 21"
OSX 10.9
Late 2013/14 model
8GB RAM
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
1TBHD

I bought it second hand for around 670pounds.

I have 824GN space left, I look after my apple products pretty well... no images, no music, nothing clogging it up.

Really not sure why its rapidly become a lot slower :-(

I did, (un-educatedly) delete a cache file that was to do with applications, it was the largest in file size, 100+MB i think, as a cleaner app showed it up, maybe i should'nt have deleted that, could have made apps slower? but why boot up going slow now?

hope someone can cast some light.


Thanks

Probably your hard drive mate. Unlike SSD's their performance deteriorates over time. How quickly is the only variable in the equation.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

For some reason as of late, my iMac has started booting up a lot slower than it did when I first got it, which, wasn't even that long ago (around 5months-ish).

seems to stay on the grey loading screen for longer than it used to, and once booted up, sits on the desktop for a good min or so without me being able to launch anything, the dock also does not appear for a min or so, and when it does, i'll usually open Chrome, and that just bounces for about 30+ seconds....

Can't use the spotlight, etc. It's happened a lot faster than i expected it too... I mean, wear and tear, over time they get a bit sluggy etc but, I have'nt even had it that long,

Specs:

iMac 21"
OSX 10.9
Late 2013/14 model
8GB RAM
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
1TBHD

I bought it second hand for around 670pounds.

I have 824GN space left, I look after my apple products pretty well... no images, no music, nothing clogging it up.

Really not sure why its rapidly become a lot slower :-(

I did, (un-educatedly) delete a cache file that was to do with applications, it was the largest in file size, 100+MB i think, as a cleaner app showed it up, maybe i should'nt have deleted that, could have made apps slower? but why boot up going slow now?

hope someone can cast some light.


Thanks

Firstly try going to Disk utility and repairing your disk and disk permissions. If that works all good.

If not take a look at activity monitor and see if there are any rogue programs using up all your computers resources...

lastly your HDD could just be dying they do sometimes.....

 

[JustMartin]

Probably your hard drive mate. Unlike SSD's their performance deteriorates over time. How quickly is the only variable in the equation.

Hard disks don't suddenly start getting slower, any degradation in speed is gradual. In any case, this caused by fragmentation (parts of files being scattered across the disk as it gets full) and the operating system does a pretty good job of fixing that. Even then he has 80% of his disk empty, so fragmentation will not be an issue. I agree with the previous poster, check disk and repair permissions.

 

[SuperFreak]

Please post an EtreCheck report of your system and we can look for obvious issues. You can get EtreCheck by clicking:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Just downloaded and used EtreCheck, here are my results: (note: some text is in red on the actual report but it's not showing that on the forum).

Problem description:

slow boot up and app loading



EtreCheck version: 2.3 (135)

Report generated 8/8/15, 3:03 PM

Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck



Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.



Hardware Information: (What does this mean?)

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013) (Technical Specifications)

iMac - model: iMac14,3

1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac



Video Information: (What does this mean?)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 1024 MB

iMac 1920 x 1080

DELL SE198WFP 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz



System Software: (What does this mean?)

OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Time since boot: less than an hour



Disk Information: (What does this mean?)

APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0 : (1 TB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 999.86 GB (824.12 GB free)



USB Information: (What does this mean?)

JMicron Samsung M3 Portable 1 TB

Primary xHD (everything) (disk1s1) /Volumes/Primary xHD (everything) : 1.00 TB (7.37 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse

Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard

Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC

Action Star USB2.0 Hub

Action Star USB2.0 Hub

Action Star USB HID

Action Star USB HID

ION Key49



Thunderbolt Information: (What does this mean?)

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus



Configuration files: (What does this mean?)

/etc/hosts - Count: 20



Gatekeeper: (What does this mean?)

Anywhere



Kernel Extensions: (What does this mean?)

/Applications/Toast 11 Titanium/Spin Doctor.app

[not loaded] com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) [Click for support]



/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.caiaq.driver.NIUSBMaschineControllerDriver (2.7.0 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.m-audio.usb.midisupport.driver (1.4.1 - SDK 10.7) [Click for support]

[not loaded] jp.co.roland.RDUSB017BDev (1.0.0 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]



/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.wibu.codemeter.CmUSBMassStorage (1.0.7) [Click for support]



~/Library/Services/ToastIt.service/Contents/MacOS

[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0) [Click for support]



Startup Items: (What does this mean?)

M-Audio Firmware Loader: Path: /Library/StartupItems/M-Audio Firmware Loader

RDUSB017BStartup: Path: /Library/StartupItems/RDUSB017BStartup

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite



Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.Arturia.ArturiaSoftwareCenterAgent.plist [Click for support]



Launch Daemons: (What does this mean?)

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.ea.origin.ESHelper.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.m-audio.usb.firmwareloader.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]



User Launch Agents: (What does this mean?)

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.digitalrebellion.SoftwareUpdateAutoCheck.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.Installer.completer.download.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.Installer.completer.ltvbit.plist [Click for support]

[failed] com.Installer.completer.update.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Manroling.update.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Myppes.download.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Myppes.ltvbit.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Myppes.update.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Oliverto.download.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Oliverto.ltvbit.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] Oliverto.update.plist [Click for support]



User Login Items: (What does this mean?)

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Autodesk 360 UNKNOWN (missing value)

NIHardwareAgent Application Hidden (/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Hardware/NIHardwareAgent.app)



Internet Plug-ins: (What does this mean?)

AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 18.0.0.194 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Flash Player: Version: 18.0.0.194 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 [Click for support]

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8



Safari Extensions: (What does this mean?)

AdBlock

GoldenBoy



Audio Plug-ins: (What does this mean?)

DVCPROHDAudio: Version: 1.3.2



3rd Party Preference Panes: (What does this mean?)

Flash Player [Click for support]

Native Instruments USB Audio [Click for support]

TB-3 [Click for support]



Time Machine: (What does this mean?)

Time Machine not configured!



Top Processes by CPU: (What does this mean?)

7% iTunes

3% WindowServer

2% coreaudiod

2% fontd

0% RDUSB017BSetupd



Top Processes by Memory: (What does this mean?)

1.20 GB Google Chrome Helper(6)

703 MB kernel_task

524 MB iTunes

319 MB mds_stores

238 MB Google Chrome



Virtual Memory Information: (What does this mean?)

3.70 GB Free RAM

4.30 GB Used RAM (1.84 GB Cached)

0 B Swap Used



Diagnostics Information: (What does this mean?)

Aug 8, 2015, 02:36:12 PM Self test - passed

Aug 6, 2015, 10:12:56 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2015-08-06-221256_[redacted].panic [Click for details]

 

[SuperFreak]

Firstly try going to Disk utility and repairing your disk and disk permissions. If that works all good.

If not take a look at activity monitor and see if there are any rogue programs using up all your computers resources...

lastly your HDD could just be dying they do sometimes.....

Hard disks don't suddenly start getting slower, any degradation in speed is gradual. In any case, this caused by fragmentation (parts of files being scattered across the disk as it gets full) and the operating system does a pretty good job of fixing that. Even then he has 80% of his disk empty, so fragmentation will not be an issue. I agree with the previous poster, check disk and repair permissions.

Thanks, just repaired and verified disk, will let you know after i restart and boot up again if that helped out!

Cheers