Thank you Alan. The only two other Apps in my Startup are Mail & Dropbox. I am wondering if Dropbox really needs to be the Startup Folder ?
I have a 2017 iMac , Retina 4K, 21.5 inch Processor i7 3.6 GHz Quad Core 16 GB RAM 500 GB SSD It is a very fast Mac and usually gets to login in 25 seconds. But in the last week that time has tripled. I might try the starting in Verbose Mode trick (hold down V) to see what it is doing at startup. > On 26 Oct 2020, at 2:53 pm, Philippe Chaperon <laut...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > Many thanks for that suggestion. I am getting this application and will > follow your instructions by removing the lot and introducing one at a time > and see which one is creating the trouble. > > Great idea and my thanks. Hopefully Stephen will go through the test also. > > All the best, > > Philippe C. > > On 26 Oct 2020, at 2:49 pm, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au > <mailto:sma...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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 >> <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>> > > -- 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> Regards, Stephen Chape
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