Five simple steps to optimize your Mac performance

Making an old Mac run faster is like trying to speed up an old car. My Mac is only one year old but due to system junks & highly fragmented files, its speed slows down. You have to perform cleaning on your Mac in order to gain speed and increase performance of your Mac. So, make sure that you have cleaned out all the clutters & junk files from it. Defragmentation of files using some third party tool is also must to regain its lost speed.

Both these processes of cleaning and defragmentation allow your Mac to run like it was new. Here are the top five common reasons and their fixes of Mac running extremely slow.

1. Minimize Desktop items:

You are probably unaware that accumulation of lot of files on Mac desktop is one of the prominent reason for slowing down Mac performance. Because on every boot or startup your Mac OS X used to index all of the content of your desktop. It catalog the content of every folder after creating a thumbnail icon for each and every file on desktop. This process take time hence slows down other Mac operations. That is why it is advisable to keep only frequently used files on desktop.

2. Disable unused start-up apps:

In order to speed up your Mac you need to remove some apps from startup list. When your Mac is booting or at startup you might have noticed that some applications automatically opens. So, it is advisable to remove those apps that you don't often use from auto start-up option.

3 Minimize widgets on dashboard:

Several widgets and clips on dashboard utilize lots of memory and thus brings the system speed down. Minimizing unnecessary or unused widgets is an effective way to enhance fruition of your Mac.

4.Turn off unnecessary Applications:

In order to speed up your Mac you need to turn off the apps you seldom use like Bluetooth, Speech Recognition or Internet Sharing. This action of yours will not only speed up your Mac but help you to save your battery life.

5.Defragmentation of Mac drive:

After a long usage of computer, files get automatically fragmented which indirectly effects system speed and performance. In Mac, HFS+ file system have capability to defragment files but upto 20MB file size only. In case of fragmented files processor takes time in fetching files from different locations.

Stellar Drive Defrag is the best Mac defragmenting app from my point of view. It can also alert you about your hard drive by showing temperature of it. I have been using this software from two years and it gives my Mac new life.

All the above steps help you to increase Mac speed but only upto some extent. If you want to optimize your Mac performance completely than must clean your Mac by some Mac cleaning apps. You need to clear unwanted files and apps, cache log files, universal binaries etc. in order to get rid of slow Mac.