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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Drive Cleaner for Mac to fix slow speed

The smooth running of Mac OS X impresses us all, but with time, it deteriorates its performance and becomes as slow as sloth. No one likes to see a spinning beach ball for minutes while trying to perform any activity, whether it is important or unimportant. Users often come across such problems wherein their Mac starts taking too much time even when performing simple file saving tasks. In such cases, many of you may think of replacing your old Mac with a new machine. However, before opting for such an expensive resolution for this problem, it is recommended to watch out some simple yet cost-effective ways of handling these cases. If you follow these below mentioned fixes for slow Mac, then you can get back the old speed of your machine:
  • Clean the Hard Drive: Most of us forget that hard drive is a mechanical device that has limited space, and keep it cluttered with unnecessary stuffs. It is seen that the 40% of the space of user’s hard drive is filled with the items that are very rarely or never used. Removing the unnecessary items from hard drive and moving the less used ones to an external drive like external hard drive or CD drive can be a way to make free space on your Mac. Moreover, visiting the trash of your iPhoto is also recommended. Deleting your photos does not mean that they are gone completely from your machine’s hard drive. The iPhoto has its personal bin that contains all the deleted photos. Emptying this bin can clean up your hard drive.
  • Watch Out the ‘Activity Monitor’: Keeping an eye on the ‘Activity Monitor’ of your Mac machine, you can find out the application that is using maximum CPU resources, and hence making machine sluggish. Go to ‘Applications >> Utilities >> Activity Monitor’, click the ‘%CPU’ to get the list of the percentage of CPU used by all the running applications. If you find that an application is showing 90% or above number here, then close that application immediately by clicking the ‘Quit Process’. Another check that you can perform here is for ‘Disk Usage’. Click the ‘Disk Usage’ tab provided at the bottom of the ‘Activity Monitor’. If the free space (in green color) is getting narrow in the provided pie chart, then you should clear unused files from your hard drive.
  • Check the ‘Log in’ Items: A sluggish Mac performs a slow start up. This is because the ‘Startup Items’ or ‘Login Items’ collect so many applications. All these applications take a start when you start up your Mac, and hence deteriorate the speed of your machine. To check it, go to ‘System Preferences >> Users & Groups >> Log in Items’. From here, uncheck all the applications that you do not want in startup.
  • Clean the Desktop: After removing all the unneeded applications from ‘Start Up’, it is time to check out your desktop. Mac users often keep their desktop cluttered with hundreds of icons. For better working of Mac, it is suggested to stop saving anything on desktop and organize files into their respective folders. However, for best results, it is suggested to keep the desktop completely clean.
  • Close Unused Programs and Perform Regular Restarts: This point is especially for Mac users as they take the advantage of multi-tasking facilitated by Mac. Many applications running simultaneously slow down the processing of Mac. Close all the applications that are not currently in use. Apart from this, most Mac users keep their machine in sleep mode and do not restart it regularly. This again makes machine slow. Therefore, to make machine faster, it is recommended to restart Mac frequently.
  • Use Mac Cleaning Utility: The easiest yet most efficient way of speeding up your Mac is cleaning it with the help of a professional utility. Professional Mac cleaning utility removes all unnecessary files, large files, and junks, and completely uninstalls an unused application by simple drag and drop. An efficient utility of this category provides you the feature to schedule the cleaning task at your desired ‘Time’ and ‘Date’. Some tools provide the feature of automatic cleanup of Mac removable devices, which are attached to your Mac. The option to set filters for the searching of specific category of files enables the software to include or exclude some particular type of file for cleaning. A reliable utility also provides the option to get the preview of the files before removing them from your machine. This feature prevents removal of useful files from your machine.
  • Upgrade Your RAM: If none of the above-mentioned methods is a useful fix for slow Mac, then upgrading your Mac can be a way to speed it up. Upgrading your Mac is not very expensive method and it speeds up your machine. Generally, two GB RAM is sufficient for a normal computer user. However, for graphic designers, this limit increases to 4GB because they use graphic files with heavy applications like Adobe PhotoShop, which eat a lot of RAM. However, if your machine is losing performance even after 2GB or 4GB of RAM, then adding extra 2GB can speed up its performance at least by 50%.   

Almost all aforementioned methods are the best ways for speeding up your slow Mac and more specifically, the professional Mac drive cleaner, which you can opt when basic cleaning methods do not work. If you have doubt that which software you should select for cleaning Mac, then you can download the free demo version of the tool. Most of the efficient utilities of this category provide the free demo version of their software.

Generally, a free utility performs all basic Mac cleaning tasks, and to avail extra features, you have to purchase the license of the software, which too is not very expensive. So, use the method of your choice and get back the old speed of your machine without much trouble.

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