It takes about 40 seconds to boot my MBP. What is slowing it down, and what can i do to make it faster?
i have 4 gigs of kingston ram. in my mac partition, i have 40 gigs left, and 20 gigs left in my bootcamp partition
and what can i do to make it faster?
I have noticed that my MB(2.0 C2D 2gb ram) takes considerably longer to boot once I've installed BootCamp. Even after returning my partition to one boot time is horrible. Is this caused by bootcamp? Is it waiting for user input on which OS to boot, even though now OS X is my only OS?
I had this exact problem, after I removed my Boot Camp partition. Resetting the PRAM (by holding down Apple+Option+P+R while the computer is booting, and waiting until it chimes twice) fixed it.![]()
If you leave it in sleep, is the hard drive still spinning? I do this during the day but then shut it off before I go to bed. I would hate to leave the hard drive running straight for so long.
Run permissions repairs (disc utility) after any piece of software is installed. That can speed things up dramatically. You can also run maintenance scripts using Onyx or Cocktail or Applejack, though OSX runs these scripts regularly if your machine is running at night (it may run most of them regardless during other idle points).
Hey, THANK YOU!
That worked for me, too. Now it restarted in 15s. Great!