Best Ways to Speed up a Mac OS

Practising some of the most simple, yet necessary steps will assure building an environment which is smooth and safe for working on Mac. There is time now when I realize that my Mac mini hard drive is suffocating due to presence of huge data onto it. And, to rescue the drive from a possible damage I need to launch a rescue operation that not only help my drive to stay and live longer but also tone up its performance. I have spent some good time on areas where I can really make improvement that lasts and finally delivers the result which I am looking form.

Currently, the problems which I am facing are -

• Slow Speed and Poor Performance

• System freezing frequently

• Hard drive strange sounds that makes me more concerned

To perform an entire clean up of my Mac, I choose to begin with my -

1. Desktop – The place need not be filled with too many icons making the user go mad looking around for something. Also, it doesn't makes a good look and feel of a system. My desktop is often bulging with too many application icons, games icon, office files, and software shortcuts. To make my drive go fast, I have to delete junk icons from it. It not only makes the appearance much better but also can increase the speed of a Mac system.

2. Trash-Bin – I usually add and remove so many applications, icons and folders. Downloads from the Internet like torrent files, dmg, zip etc are used and then move to trash-bin. This is a part of my daily activity which now needs my attention. Making a tour of the trash-bin folder helped me to see through my eyes what mess I have created over there. A trash-bin folder should timely be cleared; otherwise it is one of the prominent
   

3. Applications – Being a Mac user, I always find myself involved with huge numbers of existing and growing Mac applications. Many of them are of my interest, but some of them simply don't need to be present on my system. And, this is not a case that limits to myself, every Mac owner must have made excess presence of both useful and unwanted applications on its drive. But aiming to achieve a high speed & performance, it's time now to say goodbye to some of those unwanted applications which I choose to uninstall. A good amount of free space can be made available by deleting unsought applications.

4. Widgets – Widgets are cool, in-fact they are awesome. Widgets alone can make a computer user go crazy with its features, look and feel and usability. But what if the widgets alone occupy some good drive space and make the system compromise with its performance. Widgets consumes small amount of memory spaces with some processor power needed for their functioning. To remove or disable any widget, access Widget Manager to do so.

5. Animation – Many of us download these animations just to make our eyes feel better. If disk space, speed of the Mac is a concern then it’s better to deactivate.

6. Login Items - At the time of logging into a Mac, some items may appear automatically which is surely irritating. For more detail, Goto - System Preferences<< Accounts<. Kindly uncheck those which are of no use to you.

7. Some of the applications might be user specific and may not be used by all. These include Universal Access, Blue-tooth, Speech Recognition, Internet sharing. Disable them if not used at all. To do so, simply goto System Preference.

8. Language Files – Every-time, a software is installed, it installs all the languages on its own. Except English, none of the remaining language is of any use to us. Removing the unwanted language files helps make some free space. By using a third-party software, one may choose to delete all the other language files from the Mac OS X, except his own.

9. Dis-enable Dock shadow & Dashboard.

10. Upgrade RAM – Enhance the Mac's performance by upgrading the RAM.

11. Updates – The software updates can help you overcome the issues of bugs and improves the speed as well.

12. Internet Browsers: -

• Clear Internet Settings

• Deleted Internet Caches files

• Deleted logs

• Decrease page load time in Safari

• Delete all browsers history, auto-fills and favicons

13. Disk Utility: - Applications<<. Find out errors in the Mac HDD by selecting Verify Disk Permissions. If disk has developed some errors, then you can repair them too.

14. Speed Up Mac Software – With spending $29 on Speed Up Mac Software is worth, because it takes care of cleansing the entire HDD or selected volumes. The software scans the disk, lists all the unused files and wipe-out unwanted files, caches, logs, System Junks etc. Makes uninstall an application by just 'Drag and Drop' operation, generates preview of Photos, Music and Video files before performing the cleaning of the computer. User can set easy scheduling which will clean-up tasks at a user-specified time.

15. Speed Up Mac software preview: -

An Interface of Speed Up Mac displaying the lists of unwanted Applications