At 4:07 PM +0000 02/02/2006, Simon Royal wrote:
G4 'Mirror Door' 1Ghz with 768MB RAM. machine runs incredibly slow.
Use a tool like Cocktail to clear out all the caches and run the maintenance scripts.
Consider killing off Spotlight.
Is there any point running a defrag program like DiskWarrior or would it benefit from backing up the important files and wiping the machine for a fresh install of Panther?
It's possible that you could be highly fragmented, but that wouldn't cause the slowness to the point you describe.
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