Making my computer faster?

I know this seems like a vague question, but I was wondering if there was anything like a defragmentation command (like the ones on PCs) on a Mac? Mine's starting to slow down a little bit and it seems like it might need to go through a little bit of a cleaning. Or maybe it's just getting old. Either way, any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts had been significantly reduced in Tiger and Leopard.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
9. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
10. MimMac (Commercial)
11. CloneTool Hatchery (Shareware)
12. Clone X (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

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Lately Kernel_task has been appearing a lot in the group of first 5 applications using memory, and immediately making my computer slower, and even getting the internal ventilator make a lot of noise because of the extra work. I am working on the Startup disk space, getting rid of things to make space (what would be the ideal minimum space I should keep unused?), but I don't know if this is related with the kernel_task
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Hardware Information:
    MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
    MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir4,2
    1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
    4 GB RAM
Video Information:
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
System Software:
    OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 7:53:2
Disk Information:
    APPLE SSD TS128C disk0 : (121.33 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 120.47 GB (3.81 GB free) (Low!)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
    Apple Inc. FaceTime Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Inc. iPhone
    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
    Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Thunderbolt Information:
    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
    Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
    [kext loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.1.2) Support
    [not loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.1.2) Support
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    [kext loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.1.2) Support
Startup Items:
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    VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Problem System Launch Daemons:
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Launch Daemons:
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    [running]    com.aladdin.eTSrv.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
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Safari Extensions:
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Audio Plug-ins:
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iTunes Plug-ins:
    Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player Support
    Java Support
Time Machine:
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Top Processes by CPU:
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         6%    WindowServer
         2%    sysmond
         1%    plugin-container
         1%    eTSrv
Top Processes by Memory:
    1.21 GB    firefox
    66 MB    Finder
    45 MB    Skype
    41 MB    WindowServer
    25 MB    mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information:
    41 MB    Free RAM
    927 MB    Active RAM
    886 MB    Inactive RAM
    1.06 GB    Wired RAM
    2.04 GB    Page-ins
    151 MB    Page-outs

I did, it, here the print screen of what it's my usual work with Firefox (two windows, several tags). Did disable the extensions to make the test and these are the results.

How do u remove foxfire "persona" due to some kind of bug in the programming? It is making our computer extermly slow!!!!

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You can uninstall your current Persona and revert to the Default theme (Firefox or Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
See
* [[Personas]]
* [[Using themes with Firefox]]

Making LR3 go faster

I have been so frustrated with the speed of LR3 and have been trying to find ways of making it go faster. After a lot of playing around there are two recommendations that I have:
1) If working with raw files (particularly large ones) switch back to the 2003 profile for general editing and only use the 2010 version when you specifically need it. This makes an enormous difference - more like version 2.7
2) I noticed that my graphics card uses the Microsoft’s WDDM driver. I have just updated this to the latest NVIDIA driver and find about a 20% increase in performance + the user interface is not as jerky.
I have tried Window 7 64 bit but have not noticed any significant improvements in performance.
Also I have noticed that ram usage does not go above 1.7GB under any circumstances with LR3 (no other programs running) also the hard disk light only flashes intermittently so I guess resources are not an issue and that its purely processor grunt that is required.

Thanks for the information... will try with the 2003 profile.
Jim

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Making After effect faster on my computer?

Hi ,
This is my first ever post in this forum and i hope to find some good people with great answers and hopefully help more users with problem like mine.
so heres the thing, this is my computer spec:
iMac 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory:16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB
OS X 10.9.5
working on After effect CC 2014 (latest release).
so my question is how can i make my computer work faster (especially while working and rendering in AE)? cause in the past few months i feel it takes it more time to render a frame or a movie and in general the system feels more sloby.
i know this topic been covered in other sites and discussions but i wanted to hear other users who had that problem in the past and managed to solve it or ease the pain a bit.
many thanks

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Next make sure you are rendering using all 8 cores (this can be set in preferences).
AE has been 64-bit since CS5; CC 2014 is certainly 64-bit.
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I heard Yosemite is a RAM hog,
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How to use Activity Monitor - Apple Support
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Neither computer has third-party anti-virus maintenance software, not do that have the questionable software that comes bundled with "name-brand" external hard drives.

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I haven't gone to the trouble of actually testing to see which uses more CPU power, but Firefox has been faster than Safari on every Mac I've ever owned.
To see CPU usage by process, open the terminal (in Utilities) and enter 'top' at the command line. You might have to expand the window as processes don't appear in any logical order.
It could also be hardware-related: I have late 2009 mini with similar specs and it pinwheels easily.

Here are my Etrecheck results....can anyone help me get my computer faster? Problem description: Computer very slow-.and unresponsive EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121) Report generated April 16, 2015 at 10:19:42 AM EDT

Problem description:
Computer very slow….and unresponsive
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated April 16, 2015 at 10:19:42 AM EDT
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
    1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
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    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 412
Video Information: ℹ️
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB
        Color LCD 1440 x 900
System Software: ℹ️
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        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (299.54 GB free)
            Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
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        EFI (disk3s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        My Passport (disk3s2) /Volumes/My Passport : 499.73 GB (126.16 GB free)
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        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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    WDSecurityHelper    UNKNOWN (missing value)
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    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
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    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.8 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 31 Check version
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    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Click for support]
    Stamps.com: Version: 1.1.13 [Click for support]
    DISH Anywhere Player: Version: 2.7.2.0 [Click for support]
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
    SiteAdvisor
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    Flash Player [Click for support]
    Java [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Skip System Files: NO
    Mobile backups: ON
    Auto backup: YES
    Volumes being backed up:
        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 199.33 GB
    Destinations:
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        Total size: 499.73 GB
        Total number of backups: 29
        Oldest backup: 2013-05-17 22:06:43 +0000
        Last backup: 2015-03-27 16:16:56 +0000
        Size of backup disk: Too small
            Backup size 499.73 GB < (Disk used 199.33 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
         6%    backupd
         5%    WindowServer
         1%    Google Chrome
         1%    loginwindow
         1%    mtmd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    289 MB    Google Chrome Helper
    189 MB    Google Chrome
    84 MB    backupd
    78 MB    Mail
    77 MB    Finder
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    17 MB    Free RAM
    1.22 GB    Active RAM
    1.22 GB    Inactive RAM
    996 MB    Wired RAM
    54.55 GB    Page-ins
    1.93 GB    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
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.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
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.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

Looking for help in making my computer good enough to play games

I bought a computer from Best Buy right after Christmas. It's a HPE-410y. I'm pretty happy with it in terms of speed and ease of use. I'm glad to be finally done with freaking Vista and blue screens of death.
Anyho, a buddy of mine wants me to play Bad Company 2 with him. I don't know much about the game other than its a shooter. However, I did read in the editoral review that the ATI 5570 my computer came with is weak. Also, 300Watt power supply needs to be upgraded as well? Do you think a graphics card/power supply upgrade is all I need? hmmm
I have glanced at the graphics cards at Best Buy when I've been up there, but not exactly sure what will work, what is good. Looking for any advice and help on what I should possible buy to get this computer good enough to play games. I wanna do this maybe the end of next month. My budget is 450 bucks. I don't need to pay to have any upgrades I decide to get installed, my brother can help me do that. I just need help in what to buy.
Thanks for any feedback.

Agreed that it's an above average computer. If you still want to do the upgrade:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Corsair+-+Gaming+Series+700-Watt+ATX+CPU+Power+Supply/1073697.p?id=12182...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/PNY+-+NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+570+1.25GB+GDDR5+PCI+Express+2.0+Graphics+Card/...
Coming right at your budgeted $450.
If you like my post, or solution to your issue/question, go ahead and click on the little star by my name and/or accept the post as the Solution. It makes me happy.
I'm NOT an employee of Best Buy, or Geek Squad, though I did work as an Agent for a year 5 years ago. None of my posts are to be taken as the official stance that Best Buy will take on your situation. My advice is just that, advice.
Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.

How can I manually update Firefox? Auto updates fail and end up making my computer hang for 10 minutes on startup.

Firefox, after starting up my computer, fails the autoupdate every day. It leaves my computer hanging much longer than I would enjoy. I would like to know how I can manually update firefox and/or prevent future issues.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== 3.6.2 or a little before.

BUT I CAN'T UPDATE TO BEGIN WITH
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Problem with Itunes making my computer freeze

Hi there i've got a frustrating problem. Whenever I open Itunes, my mouse freezes and my computer takes a very long time to load itunes. If I leave the mouse alone, Itunes will seem to work fine, srcolling through the top banners without problems, but everything freezes whenever I move my mouse. this happens only when iTunes is open. What's the deal?
Thanks, Zach

Nevermind! i manually installed the update and the problem is gone.

Making video chat faster

I have SL and my mom has Leopard. I am using a fast Cable connection, and she has ordinary DSL. Sometimes video and audio gets choppy. Both of us are on Wi-Fi using Intel Macs. Anyway you can suggest we try to make video faster?
Thanks,
John

Hi,
iChat 2 came out when many "Broadband" services gave about 128k upload.
With iChat 3 came 4 way Video chats and the need for having a faster service both up and down.
iChat 3 and 4 used the System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming as the Internet speed.
In iChat 2 and 3 this got read as 0kbps when using the Automatic setting.
In iChat 4 the Automatic setting was changed to be read by iChat as 384k.
(the top Intranet/LAN setting was also suspect in Tiger for iChat 3)
Hence we used to recommend setting the Quicktime Streaming to 1.5Mbps to "Get the most" out of any network Connection you had.
What any of this did was effectively cap everyone to a max of 1.5Mbps upload if their internet connection gave them a faster service.
This would mean that the fastest Buddy was only about 4 times as fast as the slowest Buddy (with some people possibly 1/8th of the fastest) based on common speeds at that time.
With iChat 5 there is no cap by System Preferences > Quicktime > Streaming as the setting does not exist. iChat "Sees" the whole Internet speed you have that could be many 10s of Mbps and in turn vary greatly from your Buddy
This is turn means that you can be many times faster in upload than your Buddy has in Download (Let alone Upload)
In reality Upload is the limiting factor.
What we have now is speed differences that can exceed the iChat Buffering which at the minor end leads to Audio Drop outs and at the top end Video pixelation.
On top of that if a Buddy is struggling, processor wise, to deal with a data intensive download (tends to be a bigger pic per frame and sent more frames per second) then their end may not have Processor cycles to get good pic out.
What we are suggesting will, in fact, cap both ends to a figure that we know iChat works at and is probably inside the upload speed of either end and hopefully this will smooth out the pic/video.
A real case of Less is More.
9:03 PM Friday; April 30, 2010
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