Who does not like cleanliness of his/her Computer? Are you the one who abstains from cleanliness? Well, if not, then why do not you clean your Mac OS at regular intervals of time? Similar to every other thing around you, even computers require regular cleaning operations to perform seamlessly. In fact, cleaning your Mac not only includes removing the dust particles accumulated on it with a piece of cloth, a typical computer’s cleaning brush or something like that, but it also incorporates cleaning it internally. By which I mean to say that cleaning the hard drive is also important.
Dust Cleaning of Mac OS X
Well, you have to perform Mac cleaning job very efficiently, in case you want it to not to have performance issues, viz. sluggish boot, poor execution of apps, files taking almost forever to open, and many similar issues. In this regard, have typical computer cleaning brush or duster, which I am recommending because of its softness that is perfect to wipe out the dust accumulated on the outer part, keyboard, and its other important components. However, before you begin with external cleaning of your Mac, make sure you unplug all the cables (especially the power cable) to avoid probable accidents during cleaning up.
Drive Cleaning of Mac OS X
Internal cleaning of computers is as much necessary as the outer cleaning. In fact, internal cleaning is even more essential, which must be performed without failure after regular intervals. In order to optimize the Mac OS X performance, mentioned below are some of the prime areas where cleaning is required without any excuse:
Login Items in Mac
Login items are the applications, which launch on Mac, when it is turned on. Well, you must have noticed that some of these apps launch automatically when your Mac boots to desktop. These apps had created login shortcuts for themselves at the time of installation.To see the login items on your Mac, go to the Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups and select your user account, and then click the ‘Login Items’ tab. All the Items listed here launch themselves when the Mac boots. To disable (or remove) all or any selected items, click to check the check box in front of individual items, and then click the minus (-) button.
Alternatively, you can also remove these items manually as well. Open a new Finder window and hold down the 'Command + Shift + G keys, and then type /Library/StartupItems and hit the Enter key or click the Go button. In the folder that opens, move the folder named same as the Login Item’s name you want to disable/remove to a different location (let’s say to Desktop), and them restart the Mac to apply these changes. In case you face any issue while running any specific app whose login shortcut is removed, put it back to the /Library/StartupItems folder.
Cluttered Mac Desktop
As you know that desktop is the very first screen you see on your Mac after it boot successfully, make sure it does not have much items located on it because a number of desktop items protract the system booting time. However, no matter how many times the users have been told, they do not get performance issues cluttered desktop causes.
Every single file located on desktop is considered as a program, and is executed in background before the boot process ends up. This eats up system resources (RAM & Processor) to a large extent and therefore, results in poor performance of the Mac system.
Obsolete System
Apple developers keep releasing updates for Mac OS X and the apps you have installed. These updates fix several issues or bugs reported by users all across the globe and the ones detected during different phases of system testing. Thus, make sure you install all the necessary software updates to avoid apps malfunctioning.
In addition to installing the required and authorized software updates, it is also necessary to keep your Mac system updated with the latest version. In this regard, you should upgrade to the latest Mac OS X Yosemite for seamless and large apps support. For this, go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Software Update and set Software update checking preferences. The above displayed Software Update settings check for the updates and download the available update.
Overfilled Mac Hard Drive
Hard drives are the prime sources of memory (i.e. storage of digital data) on computers, which today has been enlarged up to TBs (i.e. terabytes), divided into a number of volumes. Partitioning the hard drive is a good decision from the data security point of view. However, make sure these volumes are not overfilled. In fact, a disk must not have data more than 90 percent of its storage capacity. In other words, a disk must have some free space equal to at least 10 percent of its storage capacity in order to avoid any failure. Therefore, check both the storage capacity and the free space in each volume, and then remove the unwanted items throughout if necessary.
As shown in the above figure, a number of large files are stored on the hard drive, which should not be located over there if they are amongst the ones those are used rarely. Simply go through different volumes and find the rarely used items, and then either move them to an external drive or delete them if they are no longer required. Likewise, go to /Applications directory and remove all the unnecessary apps to free up disk space and hence, to make your Mac speedy.
Final Conclusion
Although you can optimize Mac OS X manually as discussed above, using a commercial and professional Mac speedup tool is quite ‘in favor’ and productive decision. Moreover, it not only saves your precious time, but it also avoids the risk of data loss due to Mac system failure. Alternately, you can also use some professional software like Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition for optimizing your Mac OS X. This software can do all the tasks automatically and saves lot of time and important data from your Mac OS X.
Dust Cleaning of Mac OS X
Well, you have to perform Mac cleaning job very efficiently, in case you want it to not to have performance issues, viz. sluggish boot, poor execution of apps, files taking almost forever to open, and many similar issues. In this regard, have typical computer cleaning brush or duster, which I am recommending because of its softness that is perfect to wipe out the dust accumulated on the outer part, keyboard, and its other important components. However, before you begin with external cleaning of your Mac, make sure you unplug all the cables (especially the power cable) to avoid probable accidents during cleaning up.
Drive Cleaning of Mac OS X
Internal cleaning of computers is as much necessary as the outer cleaning. In fact, internal cleaning is even more essential, which must be performed without failure after regular intervals. In order to optimize the Mac OS X performance, mentioned below are some of the prime areas where cleaning is required without any excuse:
Login Items in Mac
Login items are the applications, which launch on Mac, when it is turned on. Well, you must have noticed that some of these apps launch automatically when your Mac boots to desktop. These apps had created login shortcuts for themselves at the time of installation.To see the login items on your Mac, go to the Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups and select your user account, and then click the ‘Login Items’ tab. All the Items listed here launch themselves when the Mac boots. To disable (or remove) all or any selected items, click to check the check box in front of individual items, and then click the minus (-) button.
Alternatively, you can also remove these items manually as well. Open a new Finder window and hold down the 'Command + Shift + G keys, and then type /Library/StartupItems and hit the Enter key or click the Go button. In the folder that opens, move the folder named same as the Login Item’s name you want to disable/remove to a different location (let’s say to Desktop), and them restart the Mac to apply these changes. In case you face any issue while running any specific app whose login shortcut is removed, put it back to the /Library/StartupItems folder.
Cluttered Mac Desktop
As you know that desktop is the very first screen you see on your Mac after it boot successfully, make sure it does not have much items located on it because a number of desktop items protract the system booting time. However, no matter how many times the users have been told, they do not get performance issues cluttered desktop causes.
Obsolete System
Apple developers keep releasing updates for Mac OS X and the apps you have installed. These updates fix several issues or bugs reported by users all across the globe and the ones detected during different phases of system testing. Thus, make sure you install all the necessary software updates to avoid apps malfunctioning.
In addition to installing the required and authorized software updates, it is also necessary to keep your Mac system updated with the latest version. In this regard, you should upgrade to the latest Mac OS X Yosemite for seamless and large apps support. For this, go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Software Update and set Software update checking preferences. The above displayed Software Update settings check for the updates and download the available update.
Overfilled Mac Hard Drive
Hard drives are the prime sources of memory (i.e. storage of digital data) on computers, which today has been enlarged up to TBs (i.e. terabytes), divided into a number of volumes. Partitioning the hard drive is a good decision from the data security point of view. However, make sure these volumes are not overfilled. In fact, a disk must not have data more than 90 percent of its storage capacity. In other words, a disk must have some free space equal to at least 10 percent of its storage capacity in order to avoid any failure. Therefore, check both the storage capacity and the free space in each volume, and then remove the unwanted items throughout if necessary.
As shown in the above figure, a number of large files are stored on the hard drive, which should not be located over there if they are amongst the ones those are used rarely. Simply go through different volumes and find the rarely used items, and then either move them to an external drive or delete them if they are no longer required. Likewise, go to /Applications directory and remove all the unnecessary apps to free up disk space and hence, to make your Mac speedy.
Final Conclusion
Although you can optimize Mac OS X manually as discussed above, using a commercial and professional Mac speedup tool is quite ‘in favor’ and productive decision. Moreover, it not only saves your precious time, but it also avoids the risk of data loss due to Mac system failure. Alternately, you can also use some professional software like Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition for optimizing your Mac OS X. This software can do all the tasks automatically and saves lot of time and important data from your Mac OS X.
