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Jul 29, 2008 | 12:54 pm

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mstraveler

Join Date: Apr 2003

Location: San Francisco

Programs: Four Seasons Aviara (owner), Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, Hertz President's Circle, United MP 30+ yrs

Posts: 1,259

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Originally Posted by cdma

1. Do you have enough RAM (at least 1GB)?
2. Have you run Disk Utility lately and fixed your permissions?
3. If you're having trouble with a web browser, have you cleared your cache/cookies recently? Some people don't do this for years and get hundreds of megs of temp files.
4. Do you have any programs that run in the background or have a component that runs in the background? Have you tried disabling or updating them to see if that helps things?

Maintenance programs are a pretty big waste of money. Especially on a Mac.

Not sure how to find Disk Utility. Have looked for something like that and don't see where it is. Also not sure how to look for programs running in the background. (Not as computer dense as I sound but have gotten much more familiar with PC's over the years of not using a mac much and now finding I don't remember how to troubleshoot. Hence the wish for some utility to do this!)

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