Clean up my mac.
Can someone tell me how to clean my mac of unwanted downloads and apps which are not wanted anymore , but are slowing down my system please.
Have recently set up Parallels 9 , but cant believe that would slow my system down as much as it has.
Thank you.
Drag them to the Trash and empty the Trash.
What ever you do, do not buy any of the so called "clean up" software. Besides not doing what they claim, what little they do is done in a dangerous manner.
Allan
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It may seem like it does but it really doesn't.
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http://www.titanium.free.fr/
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Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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For what reason?
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