What is the best imac cleaning product "cleanmymac"

what is the best imac cleaning product i have looked at cleanmymac but do not want to pay the price for something if it is not the best. HELP!!!

Try this - no harm in doing this, and you may see some instant improvement.
Open Terminal - type this in (without quotes) "sudo periodic daily weekly monthly" - put in your computer password when it asks. When it finishes running (about 5 mins or so) you'll be back at a blinking cursor.
Activity Monitor was suggested and is good advice. See if anything is consuming either huge amount of CPU cycles or RAM.
Depending on how often you delete and add stuff to your drive, you might wanna defrag it. I do mine about every six months or so. This article is nice - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4032 - I use a program called iDefrag and have it run offline overnight, but I am sure there are others.

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Here are a couple of topics to help you answer that question.
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What is the best mac cleaner and anti virus for mac pro.

what is the best mac cleaner and anti virus for mac pro.

OS X already includes everything it needs to protect itself from viruses and malware. Keep it updated with software updates from Apple.
A much better question is "how should I protect my Mac":
Never install any product that claims to "speed up", "clean up", "optimize", or "accelerate" your Mac. Without exception, they will do the opposite.
Never install pirated or "cracked" software, software obtained from dubious websites, or other questionable sources. Illegally obtained software is almost certain to contain malware.
Don’t supply your password in response to a popup window requesting it, unless you know what it is and the reason your credentials are required.
Don’t open email attachments from email addresses that you do not recognize, or click links contained in an email:
Most of these are scams that direct you to fraudulent sites that attempt to convince you to disclose personal information.
Such "phishing" attempts are the 21st century equivalent of a social exploit that has existed since the dawn of civilization. Don’t fall for it.
Apple will never ask you to reveal personal information in an email. If you receive an unexpected email from Apple saying your account will be closed unless you take immediate action, just ignore it. If your iTunes or App Store account becomes disabled for valid reasons, you will know when you try to buy something or log in to this support site, and are unable to.
Don’t install browser extensions unless you understand their purpose. Go to the Safari menu > Preferences > Extensions. If you see any extensions that you do not recognize or understand, simply click the Uninstall button and they will be gone.
Don’t install Java unless you are certain that you need it:
Java, a non-Apple product, is a potential vector for malware. If you are required to use Java, be mindful of that possibility.
Disable Java in Safari > Preferences > Security.
Despite its name JavaScript is unrelated to Java. No malware can infect your Mac through JavaScript. It’s OK to leave it enabled.
Block browser popups: Safari menu > Preferences > Security > and check "Block popup windows":
Popup windows are useful and required for some websites, but popups have devolved to become a common means to deliver targeted advertising that you probably do not want.
Popups themselves cannot infect your Mac, but many contain resource-hungry code that will slow down Internet browsing.
If you ever see a popup indicating it detected registry errors, that your Mac is infected with some ick, or that you won some prize, it is 100% fraudulent. Ignore it.
Ignore hyperventilating popular media outlets that thrive by promoting fear and discord with entertainment products arrogantly presented as "news". Learn what real threats actually exist and how to arm yourself against them:
The most serious threat to your data security is phishing. To date, most of these attempts have been pathetic and are easily recognized, but that is likely to change in the future as criminals become more clever.
OS X viruses do not exist, but intentionally malicious or poorly written code, created by either nefarious or inept individuals, is nothing new.
Never install something without first knowing what it is, what it does, how it works, and how to get rid of it when you don’t want it any more.
If you elect to use "anti-virus" software, familiarize yourself with its limitations and potential to cause adverse effects, and apply the principle immediately preceding this one.
Most such utilities will only slow down and destabilize your Mac while they look for viruses that do not exist, conveying no benefit whatsoever - other than to make you "feel good" about security, when you should actually be exercising sound judgment, derived from accurate knowledge, based on verifiable facts.
Do install updates from Apple as they become available. No one knows more about Macs and how to protect them than the company that builds them.
Summary: Use common sense and caution when you use your Mac, just like you would in any social context. There is no product, utility, or magic talisman that can protect you from all the evils of mankind.

What's the best commercial clean up tool for the hard drive.

What is the best commercial, clean up tool for an internal hard drive. Mine is rapidly being filled and I'm at a loss as to how to clean it up. I don't know what apps, downloads etc are current or pertinent. I suspect that I have a lot of redundency, but I'm not confident in knowing what they are. My hard drive is approx. 93% filled and I'm rather concerned.

I downloaded the free trial of EasyDuplicatFinder and tried it. Works great and is pretty easy to get the hang of it. Found lots of iTunes duplicate songs that I dumped and freed up quite a bit of hard drive space. Check it out.
http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/

OSX 10.9.4 What is the best cache cleaner?

I have a MascBook Pro with 16GB of memory. My file cache is using 1.34 GB of memory. What is the best program to use for cleaning file cache?

None.
Apps like MacKeeper or any other maintenance apps like CleanMyMac 1 or 2, TuneUpMyMac, MacCleanse or anything like these apps, installed on your Mac, while they appear to be helpful, can do too good a job of data "cleanup" causing the potential to do serious data corruption or data deletion and render a perfectly running OS completely dead and useless leaving you with a frozen, non-functional Mac.
Plus, these type of apps aren't really necessary OR needed. They really aren't.
There are manual methods to clear off unnecessary data off of your Mac that are safer and you have complete control over your Mac and not just leave a piece of auto cleaning software in charge of clearing off data off of your Mac. Their potential of causing OS X issues outweighs the implied good and benefits these types of hard drive or memory "cleaning" apps are written to do.
These types of system 'cleaning" apps are very poorly written and are really a scam to rob newbie and novice Mac users of their hard earned cash for a poorly written maintenance program that will do much more harm to a perfectly normal running OS X system than the good that the app developers purport these types of apps will do.
Plus, the software companies that write these apps make it hard to easily uninstall these apps if something DOES go wrong and these apps work in a way where you have no recovery or revert function to return your Mac back to its former, working state in the event something does go wrong.
It is best to never, EVER download and install these types of apps.
The risk to your system and important data is too great a risk!

What is the best iMac for a former PC movie/ music maker?

I'm researching Apple computers, and,my lord, I am out of touch. Actually, I was never really IN touch. Anyway, I am currently working on a short film, less than ten minutes, which will probably be eight or so hours of raw footage trimmed, cropped, flopped, color corrected, sped up, slowed down, etc.
I used Adobe Elements on my last project about six years ago, and am definitely using Adobe again. I also compose the soundtracks. I am planning on using an external hard drive to store my footage and music. So, I'd like to know what the best iMac is for my purposes, and also what iMac is acceptable (cost feasible).
What about ports for external hard drives and connections to the mini DV cam?
What about a connection to electric instruments (guitar, bass, microphone, etc)?
What about transferring video from my current external hard drive to a new one?
What about a disk drive for Burning CDs and DVDs?
I'm your vessel. Point me in the right direction.

Since you are just researching, I am going to make this as short and sweet as possible.
The 27 inch screen IMac is your only option. You need to have one with the fastest i7 CPU, fastest Graphics processor. Order one with the base 8 GBs of RAM and add additonal RAM through cheaper third party Mac RAM suppliers.
My preference is for the standard ATA 7200 rpm drives as the Fusion-type drives are not proven technology, yet.
If you want a really fast iMac and can afford it, consider an internal or external solid state drive (SSD) as these drives ard very,very fast.
For external drives fast drives are ones that use USB 3, Thunderbolt and/or FireWire 800 connections.
Stay away from external USB 2.0 external hard drives. They aren't fast enough.
You need an adapter adapter for your mini DV camera.
You are going to need some make of separate high speed audio interface box for instruments and vocals.
Look at interface boxes from M-Audio.
And you'll need to budget for a third party, good quality, high speed external FireWire 400/800 CD/DVD optical drive.
Plus, very seriously consider the purchase of extended 3-year AppleCare Warranty plan.
Something will go wrong with an iMac between 1-5 years.
Three years of warranty protection offers free repairs and replacement of you have hardware failures.
Good Hunting!

What is the best iMac setup without spending a fortune?

Okay so I am looking to purchase a new iMac. I do a little video editing and a decent amount of photo editing and music editing. I will probably do some gaming also, but I know most of the hardware upgrades don't really affect the gaming ability. So here is my question. I want to get a 27" iMac, and I'm wondering what are the best upgrades for the money? I want the best performing system possible without spending too much money. Basically, what system setup (Ghz, RAM, drive type/size, i5 vs i7, etc) will give me the most noticeable difference in performance. I don't want to invest $200 more for i7, $200 more for bigger RAM, etc if there is only going to be a very minor performance improvment. I hope this all make sense, and ANYBODY's help is MUCH appreciated!!! Thanks guys!!!!

I would say any of the 27" iMacs would be a great solution. If you tend to keep computers for 4-5 years then it's wise to invest in the most power iMac today. In 4 years you will have a 18, 16, 15 and a 11 year old and you can be sure their interests will change. In that case I'd probably opt for the i7 CTO iMac with a 2TB HD. Do not buy additional RAM from Apple, buy that from reputable vendors such as OWC (www.macsales.com) or Crucial. Upgrading RAM is incredibly simple taking less than 10 minutes to do. I would upgrade the RAM to 12 or 16GB. I would stay with the base graphics card and consider getting the SSD option which will enhance speed.
If your habits are to keep computer for 1-2 years and then recycle them then either of then I'd probably opt for the base 27" iMac with the same HD noted above and RAM recommendations.

What is the best c cleaner

what is the best c cleaner

What is a "C" Cleaner? Do you mean a K-Wrap cleaner? None. OS X takes care of itself just fine.

Need to know what is the best and cheapest product for pure B&W only.

I am switching from fine art 4x5, B&W photography in the old fashioned chemical darkroom to pure digital. I want to get the best professional Adobe program for this purpose at the best cost. Not interested in any fancy manipulation beyond what I could do in the old chemical darkroom, simply want to produce the best "straight" black and white images in sizes up to 20x24. Have a trial version of Lightroom and I've heard Adobe Camera Raw is a needed program also. Any advise would be appreciated.

I got an early version of Silverfast with the scanner, but since I was getting such good results without it, I never tried it. What are it's advantages?
Since I don't have any experience with the Epson scan software I really can't compare, but you can get full details on the Lasersoft SilverFast scan software here:
http://www.silverfast.com/
I have a Plustek Opticfilm 7600I Ai 35mm scanner that came bundled with SilverFast Ai. The biggest advantage is Multi-exposure function which takes two or more scans at different exposure levels and combines them to increase Dmax range. Dmax is where virtually ALL scanners fall short, except expensive ($5,000+) drum scanners. By extending Dmax with Multi-exposure the shadow areas (slide film) of the image have reduced noise and blocking. I couldn't even begin to scan Kodachrome slides without it! B&W negatives have lower contrast range, but Multi-exposure will surely improve the highlight detail (i.e. Negative images). There are also a number of different dust spot removal functions, including ICE. You need to check if ICE is actually supported on the target scanner and I believe it is not as effective with B&W negatives due to silver halide grain type. You' have to sort out the benefits of SilverFast that are applicable to B&W negatives versus the scanner manufacturer's software. IMHO the scanner bundles that include Silverfast (Epson 750-M) are the best bang for your buck. Some people swear by Vuescan:
http://www.hamrick.com/
The benefit is that it is cheaper ($79.95) and I believe it can be used with multiple scanners. SilverFast requires a separate license for each scanner. Some links:
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=13525
http://www.dpug.org/forums/f6/epson-scan-vs-silverfast-vs-vuescan-1941/
Opinions on which is best vary more than the weather! IMHO for 35mm color film work SIlverfast Ai pulls the best capability out of my scanner. Here's a 3600dpi scan (4,833 x 3,240) of a 35mm Fujichrome Provia 100 slide showing a 100% crop (557 x 386). I use IT8 Ektachrome and Kodachrome calibration slides with SilverFast to create custom film profiles. It doesn't get any better than this, at least with 35mm film (double-click on the picture to see 1:1).
Crop (557 x 386)
Full Image (Olympus OM2 with Zuiko 28mm F2 lens @ F5.6)

What is the best downloadable clean/anti virus software for the IMac

I want to clean up and protect my iMac but there seems to be so many bogus sites out there. What is a good one?

Check out User Tip: Viruses, Trojans, Malware - and other aspects of Internet Security and Mac Malware Guide.

What is the best imac temperature monitor program

24 inch iMac (OS X 10.6.8, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3)
The cooling fans do not appear to come on, ever. BUT the other day after a shut down (normally leave the unit sleeping) the fan (or fans) came on apparently a full speed. At the next wake-up the fan did not come on. Did shut-down and and the fans did not work at the power up. I have always though that this unit has run hot, has never had any air flow and the top is always very warm.
What can I do to make the fans operate (settings ?) 2. are there programs that can monitor internal iMac temps.
thanks

Be wary of cnet downloads page links, as there are several there which
DO NOT get you the software you seek, and can instead load adware or
other malware; you can check the outdated version iStat Pro version is
no longer available from the maker directly, over a year ago.
There are a few relatively safe/r mirror sites available that appear to have
the original size file that can get you a clean (as of earlier this year) copy.
While I checked this, six months ago, I didn't save the link because I have
an original copy in archive as .zip from the maker's site two years ago. And
then again, in the Lounge discussions I checked into this topic again:
A link I found in August 2014 that appears to have provided me a clean
iStat Pro v. 4.92 download (1MB zip) still works at this mirror...
http://mac.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/istat_pro,1.html
{Test the size of the file, what downloads and opens, to be sure that's all it is.}
PS: the ifixit.com site may have a repair guide that could be helpful in
cleaning dust out of the cooling fan; however the fan may be defective.
Good luck & hopefully your download won't include spigot or other adware.
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My macbook pro is slowing down!what is the best way to speed it up?what is the best drive cleaner application i can use?

my macbook pro is slowing down!i was looking for drive cleaning applications bau i couldn't decide which one is more useful!

There are NO applications that will make your MBP run faster. At best they will have no effect, at worst they will create more problems.
Start with this comprehensive trouble shooting document.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521
Pay particular attention to the Hard Drive and third party applications.
Ciao.

What are the best optimization & cleaning tools for Mac OS X?

I found a great app called MacKeeper, but it cost $500!?! I have OnyX, but it not so good because it just clean your mac and has given my mac some problems.
I really want to fix and clean my mac and give it top performance, because my windows 7 is now faster than my mac in boot camp, and my mac boot up speed is so slow, it actually slower than my 7 years old windows xp laptop!

It takes 3 minutes to get into the log-in screen. My apps bounces for 20 secs.
Then you need to begin reading the [Mac OS X speed FAQ|http://www.index-site.com/Macosxspeed.html] that you were referred to. It does sound like you're having a performance problem, but using a "cleaning tool" to do things like clear caches, run the periodic scripts, etc without a specific reason for doing so is not the right solution. You could just as easily break things worse without solving any problems. It's like firing multiple shotgun blasts into your walls, while blindfolded, to try to solve a mouse problem.
When I scanned my computer with AppKeeper, it said 1700 useless junk files and 12 performance problems.
Without knowing what those are, we have no idea how legitimate those claims may be. Some AV software will label "tracking cookies" as a danger when they are not. As sad as it is, some software companies will play up "problems" in order to sell software to solve those "problems."

What is the best disc clean up application?

I've had my 13' mac book pro for a year and it's about time I clean the hard drive. I've heard some negative stories about "Mackeeper"

John Galt wrote:
Simmm wrote:
I'm not a fan of MacKeeper but there is nothing wrong wiht it as far as i know.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16056085#16056085
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17805638#17805638
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17164353#17164353
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17644308#17644308
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17750782#17750782
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15910140#15910140
http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245
shall I go on
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does anybody know what is the best product to clean an imac screen?

This is the formal Apple advice.
How to clean Apple products
Do not attempt to use anything other than a slightly damp micro fibre cloth to clean the screen.

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