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Slow Mac and Lots of Pinwheel!!

jusacruiser

jusacruiser

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Mar 15, 2009
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Palm Beach, Florida
My Mac has been really slow lately. And my websites have been loading slow and "peeling."

I have done all the usual Mac Maintenance....Cleared cashe, deleted cookies, made sure not to many apps running. I even used "Washing Machine" and did a virus scan too!

But my Mac has still been creeping along. How can I make my computer faster?

Thanks!
 
Computer still Slow

jusacruiser said:
My Mac has been really slow lately. And my websites have been loading slow and "peeling."

I have done all the usual Mac Maintenance....Cleared cashe, deleted cookies, made sure not to many apps running. I even used "Washing Machine" and did a virus scan too!

But my Mac has still been creeping along. How can I make my computer faster?

Thanks!
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Computer still slow.....and suggestions to help make it faster.
 
WHat specs do you have? What OS version are you running?

Have you installed any new programs lately? How much disk space do you have free?

These questions may help hazard a guess as to what area to look at first.
 
I had some serious issues as this, a few things that I tried that greatly helped.
Provided that you have just started experiencing these problems, here are few things to try.

1. In Disk Utility check your primary hard drive for errors. If there are errors, there is an easy way to fix them.

2. In Disk Utility check your primary hard drive for permission errors. These can very easily be fixed right on the spot if there is an error.

3. Start removing apps that are starting up that you don't use/need. System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items.

That is a few things that you can start with. WE will need to get to the root cause of the problem. There are more experienced people that can help you with more.

8Apples.
 
Could be the hard drive, either it's nearly full or it could be failing. This is probably worst-case scenario. But it definitely can happen. Do you have a backup?

To reiterate costabunny's post, more info about your system would be incredibly helpful.
 
I always start by checking the hard drive. I like to use SMART Utility to see if there are any reallocated sectors.
 
8Apples said:
I had some serious issues as this, a few things that I tried that greatly helped.
Provided that you have just started experiencing these problems, here are few things to try.

1. In Disk Utility check your primary hard drive for errors. If there are errors, there is an easy way to fix them.

2. In Disk Utility check your primary hard drive for permission errors. These can very easily be fixed right on the spot if there is an error.

3. Start removing apps that are starting up that you don't use/need. System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items.

That is a few things that you can start with. WE will need to get to the root cause of the problem. There are more experienced people that can help you with more.

8Apples.
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I have tried your suggestions. No errors anywhere as far as I can tell.

My login folder does have a few weird items in it. For example, I have AdobeResourceSynchronizer and iTunesHelper. Do I need those things?

Thanks
 
Sorry, I'm still new to Mac myself. I'm a long time computer user, but just don't have that great of a working knowledge of Mac. I'm sure someone will be able to give you some pointers though. Wish I could help more.

8Apples.
 
You still haven't mentioned specs. Anyways if nothing is wrong with the hard drive the most likely culprit is insufficient RAM.
 
A failing hard drive doesn't always show SMART errors. All your symptoms point to a failing hard drive. Replace it before it completely dies.
 
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