Mac Tips - How to speed up your Mac 💻 DIY in 5 Ep. 19

Опубликовано 26 августа 2016, 17:00

Is your Mac slow? Does it take forever to boot? We’re going to show you 5 tips to speed up that aging Mac of yours. We’re using a 2011 MacBook with OSX El Capitan, but most of these tips will work on older versions too. We’ll show you great Mac tips on everything from cleaning up startup programs, to checking graphics effects, updating your browser, and even running out of storage. Your old Mac could be running like new with just a little bit of work.

1. Quit resource heavy apps that you are not currently using. Use the Activity Monitor to find them. Type Command-space (⌘ space) and type Activity Monitor. You can view and sort activity %CPU, Memory, Energy and other metrics. You might drag Activity Monitor to your dock for easier access in the future.
2. Remove apps from the Login Items preferences. This will keep unneeded apps from launching at startup.
3. Reduce fancy graphic effects in the Accessibility and Dock System Preferences.
4. Try a different browser like Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Firefox. Close browser tabs you are no longer using.
5. See how much disk space you have available. Go to the Apple menu, About this Mac, and then Storage. Or, show go to View and then Show Status Bar or Command-forward slash (⌘ / ) and the available disk space will always be displayed along the bottom of all windows. 10GB of hard drive or more is a minimum healthy amount of free disc space for the OS. You may start getting warnings around 3GB. You can empty the trash to gain some space. You can install a larger drive such as an SSD which will also make your Mac run and bootup faster. Learn more here: youtube.com/watch?v=NZlXZIDg36... Use the Grand Perspective app to see which files are taking up the most space. grandperspectiv.sourceforge.ne... Copy large files you do not need all the time to another drive and then delete them from your main drive and empty the trash.

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