Rahul Dowlath, BLOGOTE July 15, 2010<\/p>\n
* Clean out the “Downloads” folder:<\/strong> * Clean out the “Start-up” Processes:<\/strong> * Get rid of languages you don’t need:<\/strong> * Restart your Mac:<\/strong> * Repair your system:<\/strong> * Clean the Hard Drive:<\/strong> Finally, it’s highly recommended that if you own any of the latest Macs (from 2008 onwards, like the uni-body Mac Books), you upgrade to Snow Leopard. While OS X 10.6 doesn’t include many visual features, it’s refinements under-the-hood make your Mac feel brand new. Do you have any tips of your own that you use to speed-up your Mac? Drop a line in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Speed-up Your Mac Rahul Dowlath, BLOGOTE July 15, 2010 * Clean out the “Downloads” folder: This is a surprising one; sometimes, you never realize how big the Downloads folder on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dropsend.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis is a surprising one; sometimes, you never realize how big the Downloads folder on your Mac can really get. Mine is almost 2GB (!). This is valuable hard-disk space that could be utilized in better ways. I recommend you delete any unnecessary files in this folder (if possible, clean-out the entire folder). Move any files you want to keep for future use (such as installation packages) to an external hard drive.<\/p>\n
\nSome applications launch immediately when you start-up your Mac. However, you may not need to use any of them, so why not remove them from the Startup que? Do this by navigating to: Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items. In there, simply select the name of a startup item, and select the “minus” sign at the bottom of the list box.<\/p>\n
\nBy default, OS X installs a bunch of languages to make the OS more universally accessible. But you may not need most of those files; simply remove them by using a nifty utility called Monolongual.<\/p>\n
\nIf you tend to keep your Mac on for a long time (a good few days at most), it’s time to give the poor thing a rest \u2014 they do have feelings too, you know! Restart the machine, and you may experience a jump in performance.<\/p>\n
\nUtilities like Onyx (link to application site) can perform “repairs” to the system, fixing little portions of the OS that may have gotten damaged with the day-to-day stresses of digital life.<\/p>\n
\nMove-off those unnecessary files like movies, music, and photos, to an external hard drive. Personally, I have my DVD collection which is optimized for iPod viewing sitting on my external drive, saving over 20-30GB of space. Saving disk space gives your Mac a “fresh” feel too, and it makes Spotlight searches that much quicker.<\/p>\n