If you have had 4 language screens forcing you to restart your Mac, that's significant, and indicates what is known as a kernel panic. Use: to determine if you have PowerPC or Intel.ġ1. If the possibility exists that there is marginal hardware on If energy saver isn't giving some peripheral problems, because the peripheral doesn't understand low power mode.ġ0. from PowerPC to Intel, or Intel to PowerPC. If You migrated data from a different Mac CPU type. If third party software or drivers hasn't been tested with your installed operating system.Ĩ. Often a problem when using pre-2006 Classic environment on PowerPC Macs. If you are attempting to multitask with a Time Machine backup going on. Going to Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy will show if a specific folder or drive is ignored by your last Spotlight index.ĥ. (it may have a different color), will reveal if Spotlight is indexing, or is ready to search. Clicking on the icon in the upper right that looks like: If the possibility your hard drive is over 85% full exists.Ĥ.
If there is, contact the vendor on how to remove it.ģ. If any other system cache cleaner is installed. If MacKeeper was installed, and if it is, remove it with the instructions in this tip:Ģ. If you need help with a slow Mac running a Mac operating system, please be prepared to answer these questions, or find out how to get the answer to these questions.Įtrecheck, a software written by one of our fellow contributors, is a software that has been useful in isolating many of the issues below: Too often people upgrade only to find their problems begin, or persist.