How to Make Make OS X Run Faster

So your Mac OS X is running slower and slower by the day and you don't know why. When you first bought your computer it was running so much faster and now it is just dog slow. Well don't worry there are several reasons why your OS X could be running slow. Over time, the hard drive could become cluttered with files, the dock could become overcrowded, or the ram itself could go bad. There are several ways to make OS X faster and in this article I will outline them and help you get your Mac OS X running fast again like it was when you first bought your computer. This article goes for any version of Mac OS X, except the really old versions, before OS X Jaguar.

So the first thing you want to do is clear the dock of any unwanted programs and clear the desktop of any clutter, cluttered desktop is notorious for making the computer run slower. If you remove unwanted programs from the dock, the computer will start up faster as it has less programs to load on the dock when it first starts up.

The next thing you want to do is check to see if your RAM chips are working, you can do this through the apple system profiler and then more info, after that look and see the status of your RAM chips. They should both say OK. You should also look into getting more RAM for your computer because MAC OS X loves RAM. Tiger and Panther especially. If you don't have enough RAM to run Tiger, then downgrade to Panther or Jaguar. That is another way to speed up your Mas OS X

You can also clear unwanted programs and create more disk space because Mac OS X takes some of your hard disk space and uses it as virtual memory or extra RAM. This means that if your hard drive is totally full or close to it you will have problems as the system will not have anywhere to get any virtual memory from. You also could run a disk utility check and check to see if there are any

Follow these simple tips to make your Mac OS X Panther, Jaguar or Tiger faster! Also be sure to check for Apple updates as they can make your computer run faster, and always make sure your Mac OS X is updated to the highest possible version.