Improving performances on my MacBook Pro

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Stung and eoinosullivan, Thank you for your great input.

The only think I did was repair Disk Permissions and he repaired something. after your email I aslo Verify the disk and it says that " The volume Machintosh HD appears to be OK"

It's a Mac Book Pro OS X Version 10. 9.5 Processor 2GHz Intel Core I7 Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

The hard drive is 500GB and 470 are free.

You mentioned two interesting things
1) can you provide please a step by step guide on how to remove unwanted programs from startup ?
2) can you provide please a step by step guide on how to delete temporary internet files like I do for windows ?

Thank you

Temporary Internet files will have NO impact on speed or performance of your Macbook .. you delete them in whatever browser you use in the Preferences .. Safari, Firefox, Chrome all will have their own cache. If you like tidiness it will make you feel better but won't help speed things up. In fact as you've no local cache some pages will take longer to re-download again.

To check Startup items ..
Open System Preferences
Users & Groups
Select your user account
Select Login Items button on the right side
You'll can use the minus button to remove programs from starting on login .. (be careful as you may want or need some of these like iTunes Helper)

ASKER

Thank you for the clarification. Please, take a look at this program that is installed, I am attaching the screen shot is this a virus ?
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Not a virus .. but what is classed a JUNKWARE or SELLWARE .. designed to make you think your Mac is under-performing and you then pay to BUY the software which will NOT make any major difference.

Uninstall and remove it as it WILL NOT help you.

To uninstall:
go to System Preference > Accounts > Login Items tab. Click the item and then the minus sign at the bottom.

Then, open a terminal and type:
locate tuneupmymac

note down the address of the program and then put that address where it says PATH_HERE below

sudo rm -f PATH_HERE

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@Davis .. I've heard reports that the Uninstall option on the Help menu in TuneUpMyMac doesn't fully remove the application .. can you comment in your experience does it work?

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Great inputs from everyone, I am definetly learning something new today, than you so much.

one more thing, what is the proper way to reset The browser safari in a Mac please..

I've only had to do it once; but, it worked for me!

In Safari, click Safari -> Reset Safari.

serialband

Start Activity Monitor and see if you are running up against your 4 GB RAM usage. If you have a lot of Programs open that you aren't using, you should quit them from the Menu (or just Command q) and free up some RAM. When you use more RAM than your physical RAM, it starts swapping to disk, which slows it down.

New Macs are selling with 8 GB RAM and it should work for most people, but I don't find that to be even close to enough for my needs.

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I just found it :) Great ! Thank you so much again. Davis and Eoinosullivan you are my Mac Idols now :).

a few days ago I went to help a neighbor to install her wireless mac printer. She got rid of her Verizon DSL modem and router and asked me to replaced with the new Verizon all in one modem-router-wireless. I did that part a also installed the wireless printer connected to her ManBookPro but it prints intermittently. what is the right procedure to install a wireless printer in a Mac...I can open this question as a new questions so you can get more points..please monitor it..i need to provide an final answer or even better fix it and I have no clue...thanks.

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Great answers, great help ...thank you both of you

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serial band wow it has 4GB of Ram and it is using it 3.59. how can I improve this..? please