9 Best Ways to Improve Mac performance And Speed
8 Best Ways to Improve Mac performance And Speed :
Want to Improve Mac performance? Does your Mac running slow? Want to make your Mac run like a new Mac. Don’t worry, this tutorial gives simple tips to Improve Mac performance by boosting its speed.As you know that older Mac run slower than New one. Because as time passes, you Mac will accumulate junk files, cache, browser history, duplicate files and more. So to boost your Mac speed, you must follow below tips.
Tips to Improve Mac performance
1.Replacing Mac hard drive with SSD :
SSD (Solid-State Drive) is the most advanced best thing that you can improve the performance of your Mac. SSD is faster than conventional HDD. So if its possible replace your HDD with SSD.
2. Upgrade RAM :
Lesser RAM is the another reason for slow Mac. Just increasing RAM will improve your Mac speed. Before buying RAM check its speed and type in about this Mac section.
3.Clean your Mac’s hard drive:
It is the most common thing that you have filled your Mac with files and applications that are no longer in use or no need.
CleanMyMac 3 software is the best one to use in Mac OS X for cleaning the junk data and removes unnecessary files.
CleanMyMac 3 software is the best one to use in Mac OS X for cleaning the junk data and removes unnecessary files.
It will scan and release more storage space by cleaning the unused data.
System Junk: Cleans logs,caches,localization’s and improves the performance of your Mac.
Photo Junk: Reduces the i photo and photo sizes much by cleaning unnecessary copies.
Mail Attachments: Scans for any stored attachments locally and cleans.
Large & Old Files data: Scans and find the existing old files, sort them by size, dates and allows to remove GB of data.
System Junk: Cleans logs,caches,localization’s and improves the performance of your Mac.
Photo Junk: Reduces the i photo and photo sizes much by cleaning unnecessary copies.
Mail Attachments: Scans for any stored attachments locally and cleans.
Large & Old Files data: Scans and find the existing old files, sort them by size, dates and allows to remove GB of data.
iTunes Junk: Scans and cleans old software updates, apps, any outdated device backups.
Trash Bins: It will empty all the files in trash stored.
Trash Bins: It will empty all the files in trash stored.
4. Close Applications:
Mostly Mac OS X leaves applications that are opened running in the dock. Even after clicking on the ‘X’ button those applications will not close. So you can quit or Force quit the applications which are stuck for longer time to make Mac to boost the speed.
5.Find Running applications and Processes:
Open the Activity Monitor by typing this in spotlight search.
Activity Monitor – the built-in application that displays the process name, percentage of CPU occupied, Real Memory consumed by the process and the number of threads.
The Disk Usage tab clearly shows the amount of free space available and how much the processes occupied. Using this the disk can be found that causes Mac slows down and can be made free.
The Disk Usage tab clearly shows the amount of free space available and how much the processes occupied. Using this the disk can be found that causes Mac slows down and can be made free.
This will help us to find the running application and process that occupies most CPU by clicking on the ‘% CPU’. Once confirmed you can choose the specific running application and process and Force quit it to improve the Mac speed.
6.Remove Virus
When your Mac has virus, your Mac speed will be very slow. Virus or malware not only slows down your Mac, but also corrupt your files. You must use best Internet security to clean your Mac. I recommend you to use Intego Mac Internet Security.
7.Prune/Manage your Startup programs:
This is simple – The number of startup or login programs reduces, your Mac speed will increase gradually!
The applications/programs that really don’t need immediately when your Mac starts should be removed at any cost.
Select System Preferences from apple menu.
Choose ‘Users & Groups’ icon from the Systems category.
Select the account and click on Login Items tab to see the applications listed.
Now select the applications that don’t need for you to start immediately when your Mac starts and then click on ‘-‘ button to remove them.
The applications/programs that really don’t need immediately when your Mac starts should be removed at any cost.
Select System Preferences from apple menu.
Choose ‘Users & Groups’ icon from the Systems category.
Select the account and click on Login Items tab to see the applications listed.
Now select the applications that don’t need for you to start immediately when your Mac starts and then click on ‘-‘ button to remove them.
8.Update the Mac OS:
You must make sure that you have the latest OS installed in your Mac and Mac takes care of them mostly. But you can verify this and do software update.
Click on apple icon on the top left corner and select the option ‘About this Mac’. It shows the current version and a button to do ‘Software Update’.
Click on apple icon on the top left corner and select the option ‘About this Mac’. It shows the current version and a button to do ‘Software Update’.
9. Free Up Disk Space:
You can Improve Mac performance by reducing/freeing up the disk space occupied. Make sure you have enough disk space available. The disk space can be checked by following with the below steps.
Click on apple icon on the top left corner.
Select the option ‘About this Mac’.
Click on More info button and select the storage tab to check the disk space.
Select the option ‘About this Mac’.
Click on More info button and select the storage tab to check the disk space.
