My mac is running slower and less responsive than it should be.

Question

When I check "about this mac - storage", the labels are not shown accurately, with 'other' saying zero kb but having the largest coloured portion on the chart. Applications take longer than expected to load. Not a great deal of time but I do feel that the mac is not responding as fast as it should when loading applications, starting up, shutting down etc. Can anyone reccomend how to improve performance or tell me a good applicationg to download to clean it up, provide internet security and improve speed.

Answer 1

From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Spotlight ▹ Privacy
The list of items excluded from Spotlight indexing is shown (it may be empty.) Click the plus (“+”) icon to add an item to the list. Select your volume (under DEVICES) and add it to the list. Then remove it from the list by selecting it and clicking the minus (“-“) icon.
Spotlight will rebuild the index. If you try to do a Spotlight search now from the magnifying-glass icon in the top right corner of the display, a pulsing dot will appear in the icon. When the dot disappears, the indexing is complete.