Speed Up Slow Mountain Lion | Improve Mountain Lion Performance

How to improve Mac OS X Mountain Lion slow startup ? Fix slow Mountain Lion performance with few easy tips. These are some common questions being asked by users of Mac OS X 10.8.

Tune Up and optimize Mac OS X Performance with RAM

The more you offer RAM to Mac OS X, the better it will perform. Instead of buying a new Mac, adding RAM is the best way to improve Mac OS X performance. Usually while upgrading OS X we forget to upgrade the RAM according to its requirement.

 

Create ample of free space on startup disk

Mac OS X keeps using Virtual Memory (VM) extensively. It means that the OS uses free disk space on your startup disk, or say boot volume. If the startup disk doesn't have enough amount of free space then the performance can degrade considerably.

So, the users who have recently switched from Lion to Mountain Lion (From Mac OS X 10.7 to Mac OS X 10.8) should keep it in mind that the RAM requirement for both Lion and Mountain Lion is 2GB but still the Mountain Lion needs more full fledged Mountain lion performance.

To regain free space on drive you can use Mac drive cleaner to get rid of useless stuffs line cache, duplicate files, system junks, large files and log files.

 

Some tips to boost Mountain Lion speed

Although some features look very fascinating but this entertainment has a performance cost. You can gain some speed by avoiding the eye candy.

• User should keep the Dock less entertaining
  
  1. Open System Preferences > Dock.
     
  2. Select Scale Effect in the Minimize Using field.
     
  3. Deselect the Animate Opening Applications option.
     
• The window effects should be disabled
  
• Animated desktop background because while entertaining, it steals cycles from other processes and consume necessary resources which can affect the performance while running some heavy application.
  
• iTunes Visuals running in the background can consume your processor cycles and slow down OS performance.
  
• Close those dashboard widgets which are not needed since they consume both real and virtual memory.
  
• In Mac OS X 10.5 and later, the Activity monitor doesn't list the individual widget but the DashboardClient process is the only indication that Dashboard is running.
  
• You can reclaim these resources by closing nonessential widgets. Follow these steps and close widget:
  
  1. Open Dashboard.
     
  2. Press and hold the Option key.
     
  3. Move the mouse pointer over a widget you wish to close. The widget's Close button (X) appears in the upper-left corner of the widget.
     
  4. Click the widget's Close button.
     
  5. Repeat steps 3-4 for other widgets you wish to close.
     

Repairing Permissions after installing new software avoids the possibility that an installer may have reset permissions on system-related files or folders.

 

Disable or remove unnecessary fonts

Loading hundreds or thousands of fonts by default can significantly degrade Mac OS X performance. This is especially true if you use Font Book to install fonts and have not adjusted its preferences: by default, Font Book automatically enables newly-installed fonts.

We hope the above tips would help you to regain your Mac Speed