Re: Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks Ronni, I created a new account with Admin status and made it the primary. It now boots up a bit quicker taking 2 minutes to get to the splash screen (the one after the initial grey and blue screens) from there it takes another minute to show all the main menu. Its very sluggish openi

Re: Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, Did you try all the suggestions I posted in reply to Severin’s Subject: Re: Malaise on 27/01/2011? If you can’t find it I’ll re-post “Speeding up your Mac” FYI. Have you checked “Login Items” & “Activity Monitor? How much “Free” Space do you have on your Hard Drive? In some cases

Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good afternoon all, My ageing 17" MacBook Pro is slowing down significantly i.e. taking up to 5 minutes to boot up and about a minute to open the system preferences and between 60 seconds to open Pages and 90 seconds for Word for the first time in a secession. I have tried all the usual trick