A Mac, like any other computer, is exposed to lots of aspects that make it lose performance and be increasingly slow: installations and uninstallations of applications, malware, viruses, processes that consume too many resources, accumulation of temporary files, etc, etc. ... That is why it is important to perform a computer maintenance and then we show you some tips to optimize the performance on our MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro, in short on any Mac on the market. Let's see them!
6 Tips To Improve The Performance Of a Slow-running Mac Computer
Keep The Hard Drive With Maximum Free Space
It may seem a bit strange advice, but keeping the hard drive with a good amount of free space is important. When the RAM is full, the hard disk is used to store certain temporary data. Therefore, having the hard drive too full can be negative for the performance of the Mac.
Deleting all the files we do not need, moving contents to external hard drives or uninstalling programs that we do not usually need can be a great idea to save disk space.
It is also worth having some software such as macbooster pro. Thanks to this software we can review all the files on our hard drive and eliminate without fear those that we do not use regularly, parts of programs that we do not need (such as, for example, languages that do not we know or do not use) or uninstall applications correctly, completely eliminating all traces of the operating system of the computer.
Another good option is Gemini2. This program takes care of analyzing the entire storage system of the Mac in search of duplicate files and makes it much easier for us to eliminate them. Thanks to his way of working is able to locate repeated photos stored in different locations, duplicate songs, movies or videos that we have several times, etc, etc ... Its use is simple and if we are not too careful when organizing our files you can help us recover several gigs of storage easily, with the performance improvement that implies.
Uninstall Applications Correctly
It has always been said that uninstalling applications on a Mac are as simple as dragging its icon to the trash. This is only a half-truth because even though they are uninstalled, we do not eliminate all their traces in the system.
Virtually any software that we use on our Mac stores files outside the Applications folder (configuration files, cache, and so on). For that reason when dragging the icon to the trash can we will not be eliminating all its trace of the system.
To achieve this in full we have two options:
- Check the system folders for all the traces you have left.
- Choose some uninstaller software.
Of course, the most logical option is the second one, since checking all the folders of the system by hand is a real madness. If we choose it, one of the best apps in this regard is Advanced Systemcare Pro Free, an SUV to improve the performance of a Mac.
Review The Running Processes
It is possible that in certain occasions we notice that our Mac works slower than it should. Normally this happens when some application has been running in the background and for some error is consuming too many resources.
To check this we have to resort to the Activity Monitor (located in Applications - Utilities). Thanks to this tool we can see the consumption of CPU, RAM and other information of all the processes that are running on our Mac.
Surely we are not able to identify some of these processes by the name that appears (we can always rely on Google to know what each of them doing a search by name), but others and if we see one that should not be running we can stop it directly from the Monitor so that it stops consuming the valuable resources of the computer.
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