Hello, I just bought my mac four months ago, and I am starting to have problems with it. It take about 3 mins to turn on, and its very slow. I have mac keeper and every week I scan it. Also I donot go to any bad websites, I just this computer for work.
Can somone help me with this problem
Restore it back to how it was when bought.
Backup (THAT is the #1 step to clean and good running) your data and personal stuff, and keep your system updated.
Don't install without research and reading. Don't install or use torrents etc.
Use good judgement. I'd say common sense but that is sometimes uncommon.
Probably when people get their disk down to less than 20% free is when the disk drive has trouble, and even new faster SSDs also or even more so need 20% free space to function.
Take it in - my Mac is 7 yrs old, these things take 20 seconds to "turn on" and be back where it was. Waking from sleep even faster.
Something is not normal or right if hitting power to boot or wake should be very fast.
Unplug everything you don't need to and make sure that the System Preferences: Startup Disk is set to your disk drive and not say a network interface. Printers and other devices unplug and remove for now.
Learn to use Recovery Mode. Disk Utility from there, to repair your disk drive.
Add some web sites to your reading list that deal with the Mac OS - I started decade ago with
http://www.macsurfer.com which was a master list of sites and headlines and then found a few that provided the best in ideas, news and troubleshooting advice and for what was happening in Apple world.
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