FU on my video card question. Really asking why my MacPro has slowed down?

[modesitt]

For any questions on how to use HDCleanUp, you should join the HDCleanUp Google forum. Suggestions and comments are always welcome there.

[Mike Sellers]

If you have two hard drives, go to the Energy Saver settings and uncheck "Put the hard disks to sleep when possible". Otherwise, you get lags after the second hard drive goes into sleep mode and you try to open new files.

[anonymouse1]

Gene-

If you're using your Mac professionally, it might be worthwhile to take it to a good independent Mac shop and have them advise you. What you're doing here is kind of like firing randomly into the air and seeing if you hit anything.

That said:

I agree with creating a new account.

I agree with trying the utilities. I personally would start with Onyx--it's free, the last time I looked.

What log-in items have reappeared? How did that happen?

How full are your hard drives?

What version of OS X are you running?

What browser are you running?

What software do you usually have running?

Have you added any haxies or other special software?


Re backups:

You can keep your back-ups inside your Mac Pro. However, there is one downside. If something totally shreds your MacPro (a truly nasty power surge, for instance), then it will shred the back-up at the same time.

[Doc]

GeneL wrote:
BTW, I still would appreciate some suggestions for using the utility apps that I mentioned above:… including TechTool Pro, Drive Genius, Onyx, MacPilot and HDCleanup.

TechTool Pro - Keep handy in case Drive Genius can't fix something.

Drive Genius - Keep handy for when/if the Disk Utility can't fix something.

Onyx - Keep handy for when a safe boot doesn't take care of your cache problems.

MacPilot and HDCleanup - Leave them zipped on a backup drive.