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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Repair Disk Permissions to Speed Up Mac

After performing for a long period our computers start falling of performance hit. Things start to slow down. Our systems just don’t run as fast as they should. The heavy applications start lagging and don’t do exactly what they are designed to do. There is an urgent need of a quick solution to speed up few things. In disk utility there is an option to repair disk permissions.
When we repair disk permissions , we actually correct any error with any permissions, which makes heavy applications correct themselves, and could speed up the overall performance of your mac.
To repair permissions follow the following steps
  1. Click GO in the finder,
  2. Select utilities.
  3. Open up disk utility.
  4. Select your hard drive.
  5. Next select the first aid tab.
  6. From there click Repair Disk Permissions

Verifying the repair is not needed so there is no need to click Verify Disk Permissions, selecting Repair Disk Permissions will verify and repair. This could take 5 minutes to 30 minutes. The time taken depends upon how long it has been since the permissions have been repaired. It is good to generally do this once a month, after you install an application, or run an update.

Further, cleaning mac hard drive could also help you to improve Mac performance. There are so many third party applications to remove unwanted applications and data from Mac machine. Stellar speed up Mac is also one such utility which can remove binary files, cache , language files and large files. This speed up application is applicable on both bootable and non bootable sections of hard drive.

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