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Slowdown and Unexpected Restarts

Aug 11, 2007 9:18PM PDT

Hi, I'm running a Macbook 13", 2 Ghz, Core Duo, 1 G Ram. Since installing 10.4.10 I began experiencing two unpleasant things: 1) My computer seems slower - apps take forever to load, more colour wheels, etc; 2) My comp has unexpectedly restarted several times. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Also - as part of the 10.4.10 upgrade was a superdrive upgrade. This didn't work - it said it found nothing to upgrade - at the time, and has since appeared every time I restart to tell me there is nothing to upgrade. This is nuisance - should I be worried about it? What can I do to get rid of it?

Many thanks.

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Two things here and I have
Aug 11, 2007 11:48PM PDT

the answer to the second one.

Open up the accounts pane in System Preferences and select your account.
Select the Login Items tab
Select the Firmware Updater
Click the Minus sign to remove it
exit out of Accounts.

You're done.

On the first one:
You could try the usual troubleshooting things first.
Disk Permissions and First Aid on the HD

P

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Slow down mac
Aug 17, 2007 11:07AM PDT

Here is a technique I found that significantly speeds up your Mac!

go to Hard Drive>Users>YOUR LOG IN NAME>Library>Preferences

If you REALLY want to do a clean start, select all of these files and trash them. These preferences get corrupted easily and significantly slow down your machine!

The biggest side effect you will see is your desktop pattern/picture will be gone and have have to be reset and your Dock will be back to its original layout so you will have to add/subtract icons to it all over again but the speed bump is worth it!