99 tips For a Fast Performing MAC ( part 3 )

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32) Clean Your Hard Drive

All of that clutter takes up space. As well as this it also takes up time when searching through it using Spotlight. Go through you Mac and delete anything you don’t use. Your Mac needs about 10% for use in swap files and other system processes.

33) Clean Your Desktop

Having lots of shiny icons on your Desktop means you Mac has to render and store lots of shiny icon images. This takes up RAM and disk space. Remove any items off you dashboard you don’t use.

34) Turn Off Icon Previews

If you have a lot of items in a folder, Finder has to open up every single file and render and icon preview. Turn this off by right clicking in a folder, select Show View Options and then uncheck Shown Icon Preview.

35) Switch Off Image Rotation Desktop

Having a desktop which changes every 5 minutes is neat but it takes up CPU cycles that you don’t have to lose. Turn this option off in the Desktop sections of the preferences.

36) Let Preview and Quicklook Open Files

If you need to look into files a lot use programs like Quicklook, Preview and Textedit to open them. This will save a lot of time and enable you to speed up how you work. You don’t need to open a big bulk text editor to look at one line in a text document.

37) Remove Animations

Eye candy like this is all well and good but if you want your computer to run quicker disable it in the Preferences, you computer will start to run quicker.

38) Remove Menubar Items

These items can suck down memory and CPU cycles like they are going out of fashion. Remove any ones you don’t want by Command + dragging icons off the menu bar.

39) Skip Disk Image Verification

Most disk images work as planned. The Internet at the moment doesn’t seem to drop many packets of data. You can turn off the checking disk image message by typing the following line into Terminal.

com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify TRUE

Change True to False to re-enable disk image verification.

40) Update Printer Drivers

Old printer drivers can take up a lot of unwarranted CPU time and RAM. Head over to your printers driver page or search Google to finder the latest printer driver.

41) Keep Applications Up To Date

There couple of a massive memory bug in your favourite application which can slow it down and make it unresponsive. Use Software Update or AppFresh to keep up with the latest release.

42) Remove Unused Perhiperals

Firefire disk, USB devices etc can cause slow downs since your Mac has to access these devices every so often. Remove anything you don’t use by unplugging them.

43) Use Bokeh To Freeze Applications

Bokeh is my favourite application if I want to squeeze slightly more juice out of a program. It will freeze any background applications from running enabling you to get more CPU cycles out of the ones you are using.

44) Speed Up Dialogue Boxes

A cool animation effect runs when you open and close dialogue boxes. If you want to decrease the animation time of these run this Terminal command so you can save a couple of milliseconds.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.01

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