[Bleak Lemming]

Hi all,

Just after some advice.

Had my macbook pro for just over a year and up to now it's been great - no lag (unlike pc's). However recently safari has been freezing if I leave the laptop and screen saver comes on and sometimes I feel that the laptop is a little slower than it used to be. I don't have a massive amount on its internal hard drive as I try to keep everything on my external 1TB hard drive.

Are there any decent / free programs which would remove any spyware / viruses (I know macs tend not to have many compared to PCs but still). Also is there anything else I could do? Such as the equivalent of the old 'defrag' function on PCs.

Thanks.

[Raja1988]

There's one called mac keeper, but I dont think this is free.

Also have a look at Sophos antivirus and iantivirus.

[Bleak Lemming]

(Original post by Raja1988)
There's one called mac keeper, but I dont think this is free.

Also have a look at Sophos antivirus and iantivirus.

Don't mind paying if it's good (and doesn't cost 2348 £). Have you tried any of them?

[Raja1988]

(Original post by Bleak Lemming)
Don't mind paying if it's good (and doesn't cost 2348 £). Have you tried any of them?

Iv used the latter two.

Haven't used mac keeper

[thomasp]

You could give OnyX a go, it's free and has a few "cleaning" and verification utilities.

[Tulian]

Try running CCleaner , http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

It got rid of about 1.4GB of crap on my one, and deletes old files that you no longer need.

[Bleak Lemming]

(Original post by Raja1988)
Iv used the latter two.

Haven't used mac keeper

Any gd?

(Original post by thomasp)
You could give OnyX a go, it's free and has a few "cleaning" and verification utilities.

I'm pretty sure this is the one that I tried a while ago and it was terrible

(Original post by Tulian)
Try running CCleaner , http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

It got rid of about 1.4GB of crap on my one, and deletes old files that you no longer need.

Thx shall give it a go!

[parkyparkinson]

(Original post by Bleak Lemming)
Hi all,

Just after some advice.

Had my macbook pro for just over a year and up to now it's been great - no lag (unlike pc's). However recently safari has been freezing if I leave the laptop and screen saver comes on and sometimes I feel that the laptop is a little slower than it used to be. I don't have a massive amount on its internal hard drive as I try to keep everything on my external 1TB hard drive.

Are there any decent / free programs which would remove any spyware / viruses (I know macs tend not to have many compared to PCs but still). Also is there anything else I could do? Such as the equivalent of the old 'defrag' function on PCs.

Thanks.

I'd jist do a factory reset

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my GT-I9100

[Bleak Lemming]

(Original post by Tulian)
Try running CCleaner , http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

It got rid of about 1.4GB of crap on my one, and deletes old files that you no longer need.

Wow over 1200MB on internet cache

[elenii]

http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/uti...-we-need-them/

Great article with a bunch of good anti-virus programmes for macs—however they're not free.

Alternative you could get ClamXav
http://www.clamxav.com/

Or Sophos
http://www.sophos.com/products/enter...d-control/mac/

[kittyb99]

Deleting all your files on Safari should help to speed the internet up. I have an app called CCleaner, which I think will do that if you get it to do a general clean. That should help to speed your mac up. Also, make sure you don't have a load of stuff set to fire up when you start your mac up.

Go into Settings> Users & Groups> Login Items

Make sure the list is empty. This speeds up start up Restart a couple of times after deleting all the excess files and you *should* notice a difference!

[Camoxide]

Best way to speed things up is to do a completely fresh install of OSX.

Bit of a hassle and you'll need something to wack your files and music on but it's the best way to get things smooth again.

[PVisitors]

Try Onyx or CCleaner. I prefer Onyx myself.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Bleak Lemming)
Hi all,

Just after some advice.

Had my macbook pro for just over a year and up to now it's been great - no lag (unlike pc's). However recently safari has been freezing if I leave the laptop and screen saver comes on and sometimes I feel that the laptop is a little slower than it used to be. I don't have a massive amount on its internal hard drive as I try to keep everything on my external 1TB hard drive.

Are there any decent / free programs which would remove any spyware / viruses (I know macs tend not to have many compared to PCs but still). Also is there anything else I could do? Such as the equivalent of the old 'defrag' function on PCs.

Thanks.

CCleaner is very good, fixes up registry, also update the drivers on everything as well

[RyJ]

(Original post by Tulian)
Try running CCleaner , http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

It got rid of about 1.4GB of crap on my one, and deletes old files that you no longer need.

THIS. Google Chrome's cache takes up a few hundred megabytes on my computer...after a few hours...