eMac cleanup

[countryboypa31]

I have an eMac OS X 10.4.11, it is great and i love it. Just lately though it began to run very sluggish and taking a while to load documents files etc. Even safari is running slow now.

I want to just clean things up and organize so i get the most out of my free space and hopefully increases the speed.

Any info would be helpful, obviously i'm not the most computer literate person but i'm not an idiot either. Thanks for any help

 

[artbyallen1]

macworld.com has an article on cleaning up / restoring your sluggish mac .

 

[countryboypa31]

Thanks i'll check it out, any idea what the title of the article is?

 

[artbyallen1]

goto http://www.macworld.com/article/131342/2007/12/2502workingmac.html
this should help with some tips for a sluggish mac....

 

[countryboypa31]

yeah thanks i read through it some good things. I downloaded some more of the Internet servers, that helped speed up the loading of sites. I still want to clean up my desktop, i guess i have to buy something to defrag everything. Not sure i wanna spend the money though. Thanks for the help

 

[Walrus666]

goto http://www.macworld.com/article/131342/2007/12/2502workingmac.html
this should help with some tips for a sluggish mac....

That was a good article. Don't forget your maintenance apps as well.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26516 - Cocktail
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25902 - MainMenu
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596 - AppleJack

You might want to consider checking out DiskWarrior as well-
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

 

[Walrus666]

yeah thanks i read through it some good things. I downloaded some more of the Internet servers, that helped speed up the loading of sites. I still want to clean up my desktop, i guess i have to buy something to defrag everything. Not sure i wanna spend the money though. Thanks for the help

There seems to be opposing opinions when it comes to doing a defrag on a Mac.
Here's an interesting post on the subject-
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?t=32660

 

[Kyomii]

One of the best maintenance tools that is all in one and free os OnyX

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

I would not recommend an actual defragmentation as the OSX defrags along the way.

 

[countryboypa31]

thanks for the info guy's