

Remove start up items you are sure isn’t needed because it can contribute to your Mac running slow. Just make sure you know what you remove so you do not remove any critical system component. If you want to remove some of them just click the name of the startup item and then hit the minus button. You will see how many startup items you have. If you do the following: Apple Menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. This causes them to start at every login and thus take up a little memory and a little CPU usage. When you install applications during the time you use your Mac some of them may add themselves in Startup Items.

Connect back each device one at a time and you will soon find out what caused the problem. If the slowness disappeared when you did this. Sometimes a peripheral connected to your computer can cause slow mac issues without it being apparent. Disconnect dongles, extra hard drives, extra displays, docking stations, networking dongles. Disconnect devicesĭisconnect every external thing connected to your mac. If you are lucky, maybe this is the only thing you have to do! If not, go back to that bookmark when you have restarted and read on. If none of these suggestions help you just have to hold the power button down on your Mac for about 5 seconds to force it to shut down. In the window that pops up, try to quit the application from there. Try the key-combination pictured below to force quit stubborn apps. If your Mac won’t shut down it could be applications that prevents it from doing so.
