- #HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER ARCHIVE#
- #HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER FULL#
- #HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER FREE#
- #HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER MAC#
- #HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER WINDOWS#
#HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER MAC#
So what’s bogging down your Mac and making it run so slowly? Chances are it’s a power-sucking app or two that’s responsible for at least some of the lack of performance. This can happen if you closed the lid of your MacBook before the shutdown process finished, so don't be too hasty when powering down for the day.Īfter following these tips, you should find OS X runs much faster than before.Mac’s Activity Monitor gives you information about five areas of system usage. MacBooks that start up slowly may not have been fully shut down the last time. In System Preferences > Accessibility, turn on Reduce transparency.Įven if text doesn't seem blurry, go to System Preferences > General and toggle 'Use LCD font smoothing' to check its appearance before and after. Turning off visual effects such as transparency, can deliver incremental but important performance gains.
#HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER WINDOWS#
To prevent napping apps reappearing after a restart, go to Log Out… and deselect 'Reopen windows when logging back in'. If you find it hard to know which apps are open, in System Preferences > Dock make sure 'Show indicators…' is enabled. You can tell OS X the memory used by those apps can be used right away by other things by quitting them.
#HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER FREE#
That isn't always possible, in which case the OS will write incompressible data to disk to free up space for another app. If an inactive app is using valuable memory, recent versions of OS X will compress the data it has in memory. Quit some appsĪpp Nap is a built-in feature that slows down apps that are obscured by other windows and not currently doing something. In your web browser, remember to close down tabs and windows you no longer need as these are a drain on resources. Of course, you won't be able to access Flash-based web content, but many sites have moved to a more modern HTM5 implementation now. It's a resource hog and drains your battery. A good trick for older Macs is to uninstall Flash using the Flash uninstaller. This turns on the discrete graphics card, but it will drain the battery faster. Choose the latter, then restart your Mac. On some older MacBooks, you may see a Better Battery Life and Higher Performance options. To begin, go to System Preferences > Extensions > All and deselect any extensions you aren't using. If you've freed up some hard drive space and are still experiencing slow performance, then it might be time to try disabling some features. On Macs of a very low specification, disabling Yosemite's extensive use of transparency effects should improve your experience Turn off features
Then you can delete older, less critical files and folders, which should have the effect of making your Mac a little more sprightly.
#HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER FULL#
After the initial run, only incremental changes will need to be backed up, so it's worth gritting your teeth and getting the first, full backup out the way. If you do have a Time Capsule, it's a good idea to connect to it using an Ethernet cable for the first backup.Įven so, backing up several gigabytes of data will take an hour or two and will impact your Mac's ability to perform other tasks. Connect an unused or new external drive with sufficient space, and go to System Preferences > Time Machine to use it for backups.īacking up to a directly connected hard drive is faster than using a drive such as the Time Capsule, which backs up over Wi-Fi. You can drag apps you no longer use to the Trash or use an app like AppZapper to get rid of them.Ĭreating a backup with Time Machine is a good idea before you start to trash files. DaisyDisk can help you find space-hogging files.Īpplications tend to take up a lot of space. Good places to look are your Movies, Downloads and Documents folders.
#HOW MAKE MAC RUN FASTER ARCHIVE#
If you don't have at least 10GB free, it's time to delete or archive your old files.
Available space is listed in the status bar (you might need to choose Show Status Bar). Items stored in Trash are taking up valuable disk space, so right-click it and choose Empty Trash Now to purge them from your Mac.Ĭheck the available disk space by clicking Go > Computer from the Finder menu bar, selecting the icon for your main hard disk and choosing File > Get Info (Command +I). It's easy to check available disk space in Finder, yet DaisyDisk does a much better job at helping you clear out old filesīefore you even start to examine your disk space, get rid of any unwanted files.
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