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« on: May 14, 2007, 09:41:01 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2007, 09:47:55 AM »
WOW.gif I can't wait to try some of these out!  Even with "upgrading" my office machine from a 450MHz to a 766MHz G4 I'll be slower than I want!
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2007, 12:18:57 PM »
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3. Clear out unwanted applications
Yesterday I was looking at my apps folder (trying to find an almost forgotten app) ... and I was shocked at the apps I have sitting there. I don't know what at least 1/3 of them do!  eek2.gif

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12. Remove Unwanted Language Packs

Sneakers has gently told me several times to delete all this stuff.  blush-anim-cl.gif

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This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out of my ageing G5.
sad.gif  sad.gif  sad.gif  If his G5 is aging, what's my G4? A relic? An old geezer?  tears.gif


Has anyone used TinkerTool, OnyX, or Monolingual?
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2007, 02:22:01 PM »
I've used Onyx.  It always seems to speed things up for me.
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2007, 08:26:21 PM »
Used all three. TinkerTool lets me hide the Dock at the top of the screen. Oynx has something unique, just can't remember what. blush-anim-cl.gif Also like Cocktail. I probably could speed things up by deleting a few utilities! laugh.gif Use Monolingual after installing any new app and after any OS upgrade.

Then there's Disk Inventory X, MemoryStick, Pacifist, Preferential Treatment, PrintWindow, Service Scrubber, ShowVolumeFrag, etc.
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2007, 08:20:27 AM »
While these suggestions may be wise in other regards, I am not (yet) convinced that implementing them, at least some of them, will speed up OS X.

For example: "#14, Check dock for unwanted apps." AFAIK, the app is not in the dock, only an alias of it. Is this supposed to mean that an alias slows things down?  huh.gif
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2007, 08:30:16 AM »
And it seems as if there are really only about 33 of them, after you eliminate the duplications. smile.gif
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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2007, 10:31:39 AM »
I'd also like to make it known that an application known as "Xslimmer", removes the second binary from universal applications (say you have an intel mac, Xslimmer removes the PPC binary), and in some cases cutting the size of the application in HALF!

Using Xslimmer also cuts the time the application takes to load the application.

Xslimmer also removes language packs from programs that you don't need/want

However, Before it does anything, you have to authenticate it first, and you can review what languages you want to remove from a program and what you want to keep too.
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