AmesMUG: Slow Start

[Oscar J Murillo, Jr.]

Look at System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items and see how  
many things you have starting up.  If there are many, this can slow  
down your machine.


On Jan 19, 2007, at 3:42 PM, John Rearick wrote:

> How is it being slow?  Does it take a long time to get to the login  
> screen / show your desktop picture, or does it take a long time  
> from logging in to being usable?  Is it slow after it is finished  
> starting up?  Do you have any applications launch on startup?
>
> One of the first things I do about a slow Mac is to fix permissions  
> on the had drive in the Disk Utility application.
>
> John
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Norman L. Boyles wrote:
>
>> Can anyone give me a something to try to resolve the SLOOOOOOOW  
>> start of my G5 iSight each morning.  It must be as long as five  
>> minutes to get the whole thing going.
>> Norman Boyles
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