4:29 The only place I like seeing a beach ball is at a beach or in a stadium during a baseball game or concert. The one place I least like to see a beach ball is on my aging MacBook Pro, where the spinning beach ball has become an altogether too familiar a sight. If your Mac has become frustratingly slow, there are a number of ways you can speed it up again. Before you engage in any maintenance, I would urge you to take caution and back up your data. For Macs, it's easy: grab an external drive and run. With your Mac's drive freshly backed up, you may proceed. Replace your Mac hard drive with an SSD Moving from a traditional spinning hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD) is the single best thing you can do to improve the performance of an aging MacBook.

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Follow Sharon Profis's instructions on. You'll be shocked at not only how easy it is to do but also at the huge impact it has on performance. Really, the hardest part of the whole thing was tracking down a size 6T torx-head screwdriver for the four torx screws that help hold the hard drive in place.

Add more memory (RAM) While you have your MacBook opened to replace its hard drive, take the opportunity to add more memory. Like the replacing a hard drive, adding more memory is a straightforward, simple process.

First, you need to find the right type of memory for your specific MacBook model. The brand doesn't matter much, just be sure to buy the right amount, type, and speed. Apple has a handy that shows the memory specifications for a variety of models, along with an illustrated guide to replacing the memory. In my case, my early-2011 MacBook Pro has two DIMM slots, each of which is occupied by a 2GB module. Since I don't have any free slots, I will need to replace those two modules with two 4GB modules.

I need DDR3 memory with a speed of 1,333MHz. After finding the right RAM for your MacBook, follow the photos below to install the new memory. Clean your Mac's hard drive Sometimes, all your MacBook needs is a data clean-up. Over the years, you've probably cluttered your Mac with files and applications you no longer use or need.

Uninstall old Mac apps To get started, let's look in the Applications and Downloads folders. If there are apps in there you can't remember installing, odds are you can live without them. Move them to the Trash to reclaim some hard-drive space.

There are files associated with every application you install, however, and they are left behind when you simply move an application to the Trash. Since Mac OS X doesn't have a built-in uninstaller, can uninstall apps and the related files. It's free for the first five zaps, after which you'll need to pay $12.95. Clean up applications you still use Next, let's clean up the applications you are keeping. When you install an app on your Mac, the piece of software arrives as part of a package of files, including permissions that tell OS X which users can do what things with specific files. Over time, these permissions can get changed, resulting in your Mac lagging, freezing or crashing. Repairing these disk permissions, in the most basic terms, amounts to reshuffling and re-dealing these permissions so that they return to their rightful place.

To address this, OS X has a built-in tool called Disk Utility that does just the trick. Read my previous post on for a step-by-step guide. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Find out which apps are using the most resources If your Mac acts like it needs a nap every afternoon, when you are at the height of multitasking, there is an easy way to see which of your open applications is using the most system resources. Open the Activity Monitor.

The numbers are constantly fluctuating, but they show you the amount of CPU and memory resources each app is using. After watching the Activity Monitor for a while this morning, I see that generally takes up more CPU resources and more than triple the memory resources. Perhaps it's time for me to abandon Firefox and use Chrome exclusively. Also, I found that the sluggish iTunes isn't nearly the resource hog I thought it was. My apologies, iTunes. Delete big, unused files Now that you've paid some attention to your applications, it's time to look at the files cluttering your drive. You can use Finder to search for huge files.

To do so, open Finder and select the volume you'd like to search. Next, choose File Find (or hit Command-F). Click on the Kind pull-down menu and select Other. Switch sound file converter 520 crack amp serial code for machine. When the Select a search attribute window opens, check the box for File Size, uncheck any other boxes, and click OK. Change the 'equals' pull-down menu option to 'is greater than' and then change KB to MB. Enter a minimum files file size such as, say, 100MB. You can then delete any files that show up on the list that you no longer need - or move them to an external drive at the very least.

Reduce login items If your Mac is slow to boot up, the problem may be that there are too applications to open at startup. It's likely you never set them to launch at startup - they launch by default. Go to System Preferences Users & Groups and then click on the Login Items tab to see a list of the apps that open when you boot your Mac. Highlight the apps you don't want to open at startup and click the minus-sign button below the list of apps. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET 5.

Keep current with OS X Apple releases new versions of OS X as free upgrades, so there is no reason not to stay current. New versions of OS X contain performance enhancements and security improvements to keep your Mac running smoothly and safely.

Outlook for Office 365 Outlook 2019 Outlook 2016 Outlook 2013 Outlook 2010 When you start typing in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields in Outlook, you'll see suggestions appear based on what you've entered. These suggestions are broken into two categories: Recent People and Other Suggestions. The names and addresses that appear in Recent People are stored in the Auto-Complete List. Outlook builds the Auto-Complete List by saving the names and addresses you've previously used when sending messages. You'll see a maximum of two suggestions in the Recent People list and a maximum of three suggestions in the Other Suggestions section. You can remove an address from the Recent People list or disable the Auto-Complete List to remove the Recent People section completely. Use the Auto-Complete List and Recent People suggestions By default, the Auto-Complete List option is turned on. As you begin to type a name in a To, Cc, or Bcc box, the Auto-Complete List suggests up to two matching names or addresses in the Recent People section. If you type a 'b' character in one of the recipient fields, for example, the list presents suggested matches and shows all names in your list with a first name, last name, or email address that begin with 'B.'

The list is refined with each character you type. So, if you end by typing 'Bo,' then the Auto-Complete List would further refine to only show Bob Kelly in the Recent People list and Megan Bowen in Other Suggestions.

With each person you email, additional message recipients are added to the Auto-Complete List. Delete one or more suggested recipients in the Auto-Complete List You can remove one or more entries in the Recent People list.

If you hover your mouse over the entry, you'll see an X to the right of the person's entry. Click that X to delete the person's name and email address from the Auto-Complete List. This doesn't remove the person from your Contacts folder or other address book. Once a recipient name is removed, it won't appear again in the Auto-Complete List unless you deliberately select it from your Contacts list or type the address in manually. These actions will add the address to the Auto-Complete List again.

If you want to permanently remove a recipient from your Contacts list, see.