Sluggish

[Areudone]

So my MacMini has gotten real sluggish. Takes a while to load programs and the internet has gotten slower. Are there any programs that I should run to speed things up. Is there any thing I can do to get it back up to the speed when I got it. I still have lots of space left on the hard drive.

 

[miles01110]

Try repairing your disk permissions or zapping the PRAM.

 

[mattyb240]

Use Onyx (maintenence) and monolingual to remove extra languages and to strip out all of the PPC code in their that you dont need in your applications. I have saved over 5+GB so far.

 

[Consultant]

How much RAM do you have?
How many apps do you run?
Do you torrent?

 

[Areudone]

How much RAM do you have?
How many apps do you run?
Do you torrent?

I have 1 gb... and I run at most 3 or 4 apps at a time. I do torrent, but i don't leave it running when i don't use it!

 

[Consultant]

More RAM would help. 1gb is very little in today's world.

Torrent apps fragments the harddrive beyond the file sizes automatically defrag by OSX, so you need an defrag app.

 

[Areudone]

Torrent apps fragments the harddrive beyond the file sizes automatically defrag by OSX, so you need an defrag app.

Which would u suggest?

 

[STXSTEVE]

Another option that might help is a cache and log cleaning app. such as "Yasu" This in one swoop will clear your cache folders as well as system logs.

 

[Consultant]

Log cleaning is done automatically with Leopard.

Which would u suggest?

Getting more RAM would probably help more unless you torrent a lot.

If you search for "Defrag" here you'll find a number of options.

 

[hwmbrogden]

Use Onyx (maintenence) and monolingual to remove extra languages and to strip out all of the PPC code in their that you dont need in your applications. I have saved over 5+GB so far.

Is this self explanatory or do you have to search within Onyx to find this?

 

[jmccullough108]

I use X-Slimmer to remove unnecessary program files.. Works great..