Hi Philippe and Stephen, My solution to slow startups was to install the app "Delay Start”. (Free from the App Store.)
This app is the only one I have in the user Login Items. All other apps I want to open automatically are listed in Delay Start. From memory I think 10 apps can be listed in Delay Start. My setting is to open Delay Start after 2 seconds. This allows time for all the “built in” Apple tests and apps to fire up without confusing extras that may need an apple app to be working first. Perhaps you can “prove” which startup items are causing the problem by selective deletion from the login list. Or just remove the lot and see if you get an improvement. Take a screenshot of your startup app list first! Cheers, Alan > On 26 Oct 2020, at 10:34 am, Philippe Chaperon <laut...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > On the matter of slow start-ups, I have noticed how slow my two iMacs, the > older one running High Sierra v 10.13.6 and the other Catalina v 10.15.7, are > to start when I was given a 6 year old Windows laptop running the latest > Windows version which starts within a minute or less! > > Maybe one of our experts Ronni, Daniel etc could explain why our beloved Macs > are taking so long to start. My older Mac has possibly got too many utilities > loading at start-up, e.g. StatPlus, Boinc Manager, 1 Password which could > explain the slowness? But Mail has also been extremely slow to start up, > maybe SpamSieve? Or possibly due to security protection the OS has to do more > checking these days? > > The mystery remains for me. > > have a safe week everyone, > > Philippe C. dit la Grenouille ...🐸 > > On 26 Oct 2020, at 9:22 am, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com > <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: > > Thanks Ronni & Phillipe. > I have now removed it from my startup folder. > > However my iMac is still slower starting up. > Ho Hum … I just need to be more patient I guess ! > >> On 26 Oct 2020, at 5:46 am, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com >> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen, >> >> Speech Synthesis Server is the process that allows the time to be heard on >> the hour, and allows voice input. If you do not need any of these things, go >> to System Preferences>Accounts>YOUR ACCOUNT>Login Items and remove it. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Ronni >> >> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >>> On 25 Oct 2020, at 4:56 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com >>> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks >>> I wondered why my iMac startup slowed down recently. >>> >>> So I checked in System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Items. >>> There is an App that I don’t recognise in there called >>> “SpeechSynthesisServer” >>> >>> Does any know what that is and does it need to be in my Startup Apps ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Stephen Chape >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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