2009 MacBook running OS X 10.7.5,
2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
92.13 GB free out of 499.25 GB.
Logging in takes a couple minutes, opening applications takes anywhere between 5-30 seconds. What can I do to speed it up just like when it was new?
Best Answer
I had a white MacBook with roughly the same specifics (except for a 160 GB HD) and it wouldn't run so slowly.
You can try the following software fixes:
/Library/StartupItems
and disable unnecessary startup items. These items are executed before login, just after boot. This is safe because essential system scripts are not placed there. Don't touch anything in/System/Library
, instead.~/Library/Caches
and/Library/Caches
.Hardware improvements: