Mac very slow on startup
I'm having serious slow startups on my mac pro. Its a little old but was working well until I installed OSX 10.7.5. Chrome takes 15 minutes to start and dropbox takes longer. Any ideas welcome.
Hardware Information:
Mac Pro
Mac Pro - model: MacPro1,1
2 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon CPUs: 4 cores
9 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Uptime: 0 days 0:32:27
Disk Information:
WDC WD2500JS-41SGB0 disk0 : (250.06 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
JG_G5 (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 249.2 GB (16.28 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Apple Inc. iPhone
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Cinema Display
FireWire Information:
WD My Book 1112 800mbit - 800mbit max
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
TrueOutput (disk1s2) /Volumes/TrueOutput: 2 TB (271.26 GB free)
Apple Computer, Inc. iSight 200mbit - 400mbit max
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.0)
com.sophos.kext.sav (8.0.14)
Launch Daemons:
[System] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.logmein.raupdate.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.maxum.rumpus.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.maxum.rumpusd.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sophos.autoupdate.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sophos.intercheck.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sophos.notification.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.zeobit.MacKeeper.AntiVirus.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.extensis.FMCore.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.sophos.uiserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] jp.co.canon.CUPSCMFP.BG.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] jp.co.canon.UFR2.BG.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
Suitcase Fusion 3
GrowlMenu
GrowlHelperApp
ShortcutObserver32
dropboxaltstarterJG
Suitcase Fusion 2
MagicMenu
Mail
Google Chrome
LMILaunchAgentFixer
BusySync
Dropbox
Google Drive
SFCoreHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 4.9.1.16010 3rd-Party support link
WacomNetscape: Version: 1.1.1-1 3rd-Party support link
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 3rd-Party support link
WacomSafari: Version: 1.1.1-1 3rd-Party support link
RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 3rd-Party support link
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.06 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20513.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 4.9.1.16010 3rd-Party support link
npgtpo3dautoplugin: Version: 0.1.44.29 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.06 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Safari Extensions:
Slick Savings: Version: 1.0
Amazon Shopping Assistant: Version: 1.1
Searchme: Version: 1.3
Ebay Shopping Assistant: Version: 1.1
Audio Plug-ins:
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1 - SDK 10.7
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.3 - SDK 10.7
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Growl 3rd-Party support link
Java 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
None
Time Machine:
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
12% Google Chrome
8% Creative Cloud
5% WindowServer
2% Dropbox
2% InterCheck
Top Processes by Memory:
249 MB Google Chrome
221 MB AntiVirus
175 MB System Preferences
166 MB InterCheck
157 MB ocspd
Virtual Memory Information:
3.89 GB Free RAM
3.03 GB Active RAM
1.45 GB Inactive RAM
644 MB Wired RAM
645 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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4GB RAM, 2.26GHz Dual Core CPUI had the same problem and Googled it, and found your post and many others of the same style. I have found the solution. It was so easy. Go to Tools-Add-Ons to open the 'Add-Ons Manager' and remove any of your old extensions first. I removed five that were outdated.
Then go to Plugins and Disable all and everything here. You will be surprised how fast Firefox is after that. In addition, my Flash Player had to be updated.
When I see that I cannot view something and get a message that I need a plugin, I can enable that which I need. Also, I have a Macbook Pro just like you but it's 5 years old now and it has considerably slowed down since then. I can almost no more use iPhoto with my big photos from the Canon 5D. So part of this problem may also be your computer. Last not least, when you use Youtube often you don't want to miss Firefox because videos load so much faster than on Safari. -
hello,
I had had the problem that Firefox took much time (a minute or so) to start up. I followed the advice [http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/workaround-for-firefox-3-5-slow-startups-on-windows/ in this article] (which suggests clenaing history and temporary folders), but it didn't help. There were also various other problems, such as Firefox not running smoothly, update failures, weird error messages involving locked files and WinSXS (?!).
But then I noticed that under Add-Ons, there were several "Java Console" versions installed (Java Console 6.0.21, 6.0.20, 6.0.19 and so on). I uninstalled all but the latest one and it seems to have gotten much better now. Also, I uninstalled (actually, disabled, because it didn't let itself be uninstalled) that dotNet stuff.
tl;dr: as I cannot judge whether it is only me, whether others have this problem, whether Java Console even had anything to do with it, would someone more knowledgeable than myself please bring this to the attention of whomever it may concern (developers, knowledge base authors, who ever) if s/he thinks that Java Console (or, more accurately, the strange update process which leaves several versions installed alongside one another) may indeed be the culprit. But at any rate, it seems that uninstalling all but the latest version did the trick for me and Firefox now starts in a jiffy:)
Regards,Open your firewall program. Make sure that it's set to tell you when an
application tries to access the web. Then check out the list of programs
the firewall knows about. Make sure that all programs you want to access
the web are set to '''Allow''', not '''Auto'''. Auto may not allow access. -
Bridge for mac - Very slow connect after installing sd card
Hey guys,
after I installed a 32gb SD card, the connection-procedure is really slow. The green bar fills in not 10sec but in 2 minutes now. What happened? Really the SD card? What can I do?
Thanks!Hey guys,
I had to move the XperiaTransfer-Folder to my SD-card. Now, after I moved it, the date of 70% of the photos is the current date and nearly 900 images are dated for today. It's quite hard to navigate through the images now. How does the Sony Gallery app gather information? What can I do to fix it?
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1_WHY IS IT THAT AFTER INSTALLING SNOW LEOPARD ON MY MAC IT TAKES SOOOOO LONG TO STRATUP THE WHOLE SISTEM ????
2_ HOW CAN I IMPROVE THE VELOCITY WITHOUT ADDING RAM ???No easy fixes, but try resetting your PRAM and your SMU and see if that speed things up. How much RAM do you have? IMHO, you need at least 1 GB to function with any kind of speed.
Miriam
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