If your slow Mac is driving you mad, first try these troubleshooting tips before buying a new one. Moreover, there is an option to perform all maintenance routine with few clicks using MacKeeper.

1. How to Give Your Mac a
Second Life with
MacKeeper

2. Run Disc Utility and repair
disc permissions
Wrong permissions often cause slowdowns on your
system that is why this is the first thing you should
check before moving on to other steps.
Why to repair disc permissions? Initially all files and
directories have certain permission types, i.e. read-
only or executable, so that programs could not modify
your system files without your permission.

3. Run Disc Utility and repair
disc permissions
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2Press Macintosh HD
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Press Repair Disc Permissions
To open Disk Utility: Press Command +
Space → type Disk Utility → Enter

4. Update your OS X
Always keep an eye on the Mac OS updates as they are
aimed at plugging different security flaws.
Apple regularly initiates updates in order to protect its users
from vulnerabilities. Timely updates also ensure your Mac
works without slowdowns.

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Hit the Apple icon in the left corner of the
main Mac OS X
Update your OS X
Select About this Mac
Click on the Software Update button
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Choose Update All option in the right
corner

6. Clean Up Your Hard
Drive
To unclutter your Mac first of all delete the duplicates.
Duplicate files can be found using Finder. Follow the
method below:

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Clean Up Your Hard
Drive
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Open a new Finder window
In the search field, enter the
wild card asterisk symbol
Make sure the Size and Kind columns
are displayed
Filter the results by Kind, and you will see the
list of similar items

8. Remove Unused
Languages
What are language files? There are plenty of
languages in every application installed on your Mac.
You may have never used Bulgarian or Latvian which
are just waste space and can be safely removed.

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Open the Resources folder
Remove Unused
Languages
Find folders ending with
“.lproj”
Drag these files to Trash

10. Reset Safari
In Safari some of the program features can take up
unnecessary space: cache files make your browsing
quicker, but can easily consume hundreds of megabytes.

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Reset Safari
From the Safari menu bar select Safari →
Preferences → Privacy → Remove All
Website Data
If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, select the
Advanced tab in the Preferences window and
uncheck the box marked Stop plug-ins to save
power
Quit and relaunch the
browser

12. Use Mac Maintenance
Software
With MacKeeper the maintenance process will be
much easier. Apart from cleaning and optimisation
features there are also antivirus protection, live-
chat with Apple Certified experts and additional
encryption and anti-theft tools.
Fast Cleanup
Optimization
Encryption and Shredder
Backup and Files
Recovery
Internet Security
and Anti-Theft
Apple Certified
Support