Speed Up Mac - Tips for everyone

Ways to increase Mac speed

Some Mac users have to run 8 to 10 applications all at the time (and sometimes more). This often makes the mac machine run sluggish.

Sometimes even a single restart may fix the issue. When this doesn't speed up mac then there are a number of things we can do to rejuvinate the mac machine. Here are few tips I find helpfull for speed up mac without spending any money.

1. Clean the Startup Items

Some applications automatically set themselves as a "startup item", and open at every restart or login. You can find out what is in your startup items list by navigating to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. Simply select and remove them carefully.

2. Turn off the applications for Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, etc if these are none of your use.

Putting the unused applications off saves your RAM and ultimately increase mac speed.

3. Disable the 'Other' System Preferences

Please note that in the bottom section of your System Preferences window there is a label "Other". If the user doesn't use it often then its suggested to disable it (either turn it "off" within the Preference Pane itself or remove it from the folder "~/Library/PreferencePanes").

4. Please Check the 'build' of your software

If a user is running an Intel Mac, some of the software may be running under the "Rosetta" translator, which allows to run an applications on an Intel chip which are built for a PowerPC processor. Note that Rosetta is of course an efficient tool , but don't use it untill its necessary. There are patches for many applications which upgrade them to a "universal build". By making sure you're running the latest version you can be confident you're not using Rosetta unnecessarily.

5. Clean out unnecessary code

With both being options ie; PowerPC or Intel processor, the recent software come programmed for both. But you don't need optimization for both - you only need optimization your Mac PC. There are utilities to strip out unnecessary code and save hard drive space.

Editor's note: If a user is migrating to Intel from PowerPC Mac, he might want to defer "slimming" the programs until he has made the switch. Otherwise all the programs slimmed for PowerPC will be running under Rosetta on your Intel Mac - unless you take the time to do a fresh installation.

6. Get rid of languages and translations you won't use

There are very rare chances that a mac user works on different languages other than than the prefered ones. And even if he does, he can strip out the other languages not being used and can speed up mac machine.

7. Keep an eye on Activity Monitor

There are many applications still sucking up RAM. How can we know about them?

The Apple's Activity Monitor, which comes with OS X. tells us about CPU usage, RAM requirements, virtual memory usage, and whether a given application is a PowerPC or Intel (Universal) build. Have a regular look of it .

8. Clean off your hard drive

Usually we don't clean our trash. Check it today , it may make some hard drive space free.

Please note that Mac OS X (and the Classic Mac OS, too) uses the free space on your hard drive as "virtual memory", and it depends heavily on that virtual memory to run efficiently. If your Mac PC is running sluggish, that may be due to lack of some required hard drive. I would suggest to go for Stellar Speedup Mac for ding this task in a very efficient manner.

9. Run Speed up Mac

Its an efficient , fast and affordable mac utility software for increasing the speed of Mac machine by removing all the above unnecessary applications or items.