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Mountain Lion can easily become quite unresponsive if you have too many login items set to open automatically. It can be quite useful to have your most common apps such as Skype or Mail load automatically, but it does place quite a burden on your Mac as everything tries to load at once.
If at all possible, try to keep your login items to an absolute minimum. Many people complain their computer is slow, but what they really mean is that their Internet connection is slow.
You can also check the various network options in Safari , clear the caches of downloaded files and images, or even reset everything completely choose Reset from the main Safari menu as shown below. Another option to speed up Safari is to disable any extensions that have been installed.
It might not seem immediately obvious, but having a desktop full of app and document icons is a surefire way to slow down your Mac. Make sure that all your files and folders are organised in a series of hierarchical subfolders. You may have seen inexperienced users organise files that way, but it can definitely make your computer feel more sluggish.
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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Unless you bought a retina display mac, in which case you are SOL. Awesome machines other than the lack of upgrade and battery replacement options though. Same goes for unused preference files imho. My main culprit was GeekTool. A calendar geeklet I was using was set to refresh every 0 seconds!
As soon as I changed it to every seconds, the machine was suddenly snappy again. On my iMac, you can hear the hard disk running constantly. This is a great and helpful article, but 9 might be better off as 1 or 2 since this happens no matter what and can be the most annoying. Do a fresh install i instead of upgrade, if you have a rpm hardrive replace with a rpm , save your data songs, videos, etc on separate partition and avoid as possible install too much programs that runs services on background.
I think the OS itself has performance issues. And in case you think my Internet coonexion is to blame, 50 of these 88s we had the default Safari list of recent items, ie it had not even been as far as clearing the screen. During thaat time, trying to switch input languages by clicking on the little flag caused no visible response for 12s.
Snow Leopard was a really lean and mean OS. May 11, PM in response to mende1 In response to mende1. You can use a DVD if you want.
In this case, download the file and decompress it. Then, you will get a folder with the drivers, so right-click the folder and select "Burn" to burn your drivers onto the DVD. Thank you. It's not my Internet. I'll try the links. Thanks both! I'll let you know how I get on in a bit. Yes, you can download the Boot Camp 5 Support Software here.
Note : If the flash drive or hard drive was not attached when you installed Windows and was inserted after restarting into Windows 8, double-click the Boot Camp folder, then locate and double click the "setup. Use Disk Utility to format a disk to use with a Windows computer. Here's how: Important : Formatting a disk erases all the files on it. Copy any files you want to save to another disk before formatting the disk. Which versions of Windows are supported with Boot Camp 5?
If you need to use a bit version, you need to use Boot Camp 4 Support Software, and you must use Windows 7.
For a complete list of Windows OS support, click here. Why am I seeing this? Delete the Boot Camp partition and do a full install instead. See this article for more information. How do I fix this? The Windows 8 installer does not contain the correct graphics driver for your computer.
You'll need to attach the USB media that contains the Boot Camp drivers during installation to address this issue. May 13, PM. Mende1, you said: After downloading the drivers, copy them to the USB drive, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to install Windows, but skipping the step to download the Windows support software.
But I can't skip the step to download the Windows support software because it is checked and greyed out so I can't change it. Any advice on this? Jan 9, PM. Sep 6, AM in response to skandrot In response to skandrot. It first allowed me to partition the mac. I allocated 50 GB for Windows because I was not too sure how large the software I was planning on running in Widows was.
Thus, I tried to find a way around that stage.
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