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5 steps to speed up Mac

Apr 13, 2017

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Asya Karapetyan
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5 steps to speed up Mac

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1. Startup Items

Exclude the automatic startup of unneeded apps.

Go to Menu → System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Items.

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2. Clear cacheTo remove unnecessary caches and free up space on your hard drive, you can use the Clear Disk utility.

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3. Widgets and extensions

Get rid of unneeded widgets in the Notification Center if you do not use them, as they eat up a great deal of memory.

Go to Menu → System Preferences → Extensions → Today and uncheck unnecessary items.

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4. Clean up unnecessary icons from your desktop

Too many icons on the screen can affect a Mac’s performance adversely. The reason is that Mac OS X treats each icon as a separate window.

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5. Use Activity Monitor to read system memory to determine how much RAM is being used.

A large number of active apps can slow down your Mac greatly.

Go to Activity Monitor → CPU tab → complete the most demanding processes or use a free app Memory Cleaner X to clean inactive RAM.

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● Disk Cleanup Utilities● Mac Performance Tools● iOS Utilities● Visio Viewers

More tips for Mac and iOS devices read in Nektony blog

https://nektony.com/blog