Help please: slow iMac

2013-11-24 Thread N. Shani
Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow down. The particulars are: - late 2006 17 model 5,1 - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates - stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full - 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x 512 MB, so one 512 MB stick was exchanged with 2 GB stick) - monitoring active

Re: Help please: slow iMac

2013-11-24 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 24, 2013, at 4:38 AM, N. Shani nshani...@gmail.com wrote: Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow down. The particulars are: - late 2006 17 model 5,1 - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates - stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full - 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x

Re: Help please: slow iMac

2013-11-24 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 24/11/13 13.38, N. Shani ha scritto: Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow down. The particulars are: - late 2006 17 model 5,1 - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates Apart from Jim's excellent troubleshoot guide, the only things that comes off

Re: Help please: slow iMac

2013-11-24 Thread Fabian Fang
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Jim Scott wrote: Next, I run Drive Genius 3, the utility used by Geniuses in Apple stores. I boot from the DG3 disk and run the hard drive scan test, making sure to ask it to reallocate any bad sectors found. Then I run the Disk Integrity tests for both read