Greetings,
All of the other ideas presented are very solid, however the first thing
that I would do is get a copy of Onyx and run the tab which shows a
Hammer called Automation. Start with the default settings and if that
doesn't speed up your iMac then select all of the items in Automation.
At 7:38 AM -0500 11/24/2013, N. Shani wrote:
- late 2006 17 [iMac]
- 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)
what is causing the above to slow down.
- monitoring active CPU
