Since lending my Powerbook to my girlfriend for a month, it's been terribly slow and I don't know why. I wondered if it was missing some RAM or something, but it's not... There also doesn't *seem* to be any processes taking up a stupid amount of CPU time or RAM, but I'm not too sure on what should be in the system profiler etc. Basically it would seem to need a bit of a tune-up. I don't particularly want to re-install OS X so is there anything I can do in the meantime to perk up OSX?
reinstall osx.... BUT!!!!! when it asks for your disk, click options, and click archive and install. it will reinstall the system components, but leave all your settings and data. oh, and dont lend it to your girlfriend again lol...... bad things happen.....
I'll agree... that archive and install is pretty useful. It's what Apple support had me do when adobe broke something for me. TBH I doubt she managed to do anything especially stupid to it, but that should be a fairly effective fix regardless.
So... Will that leave programs and whatnot installed? If so, awesome! I'll do it today... Yeah, I probably won't. She was going away for a month and had no computer, and I essentially had a spare. So as much as I wanted to say no, it would have been very selfish.
i'd recommend the archive and install only as a temp fix a true full install is typically the best thing to do
Thanks for the suggestions. I have been trying a few things and I now think that my general slowness may be attributable to Quicksilver. I have quit the program and everything seems a lot zippier. The slowness did seem to come and go, so perhaps I'm being lulled into a false sense of security, but so far so good. If it is Quicksilver, I'll be annoyed, I nearly did a reinstall for nothing.
Have you trierd repairing permissions? Also, try verifying the disk, boot from the os x installation dvd/cd, go to disk utillity and do it form there. The HDD recently died in my PB and it caused the whole thing to slow down (obviously).
