On Jul 13, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 13, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Joshua B. Watkins wrote:
Hello all, thank you for your responses on my last post.
have a few more questions here for the professionals. Is there any way to
disable some of the fancy onscreen menu shading, and moving, etc, it seems
to really slow up the computer having to do all this fancy stuff on the
desktop and in folders and opening stuff.
No, it doesn't, actually. On modern macs this is largely handled by the video hardware.
Next question, I guess I made a
mistake by buying the 30gig hd version, out of the box I have 18 gigs
left...now call me crazy, but the OS and the programs which don't seem like
there is a whole lot, like 6 web browsers<--still lost with that, 12gigs
worth of stuff? What can I delete etc, this is my first OSX machine, so I'm
not sure if I just drag the folder into the trash that gets rid of
everything, is there prefs and whatnot like Classic had, please excuse my
lack of knowledge, but this is a whole new system for me. Also web
browsers, there are like 5 installed on the machine, which is better the X
versions or the Classic versions, and why is there a need for both? Alright
well I will leave it at this.. Thank you in advance
One thing that helps a lot is to get rid of the localizations that you don't need. This will get you something like 3-4 gigs back right away.
DeLocalizer, from Bombich software, <http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html> will do the trick.
Hey Bruce,
Does DeLocalizer work ok on Panther? Just downloaded it, but the developer website said it's not tested on 10.3 and development has stopped at this time. Let me know so I won't be afraid to use it. Thanks!
Z
If you're sticking with OS X, you don't need any Classic browser. However, I'd recommend keeping a couple of browsers around. Safari I keep around for for two things: being able to drag internet shortcuts to my dock, and running Internet Preferences, which Apple, in a stunningly MS-like maneuver, rather stupidly took out of System Preferences and embedded into Safari.
My main browser is Firefox, and I have Mozilla installed because that's our officially supported browser, and there are a few differences between the two.
IE is still there because some sites demand IE, and I keep it for testing purposes. I've used it twice in the last six months, I think.
You can readily prune applications.
If you don't have your mac on all night long on a regular basis, your logfiles (which are normally tidied up at 3AM) can grow stupendously. get a utility like MacJanitor <http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html> to clean up those ever-growing logfiles.
Do NOT go messing about in the System folder. That's a sure way of turning your mac into an expensive doorstop for a while.
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