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I have a macbook, running osx10.5. I would like to find out what programs are running in the background that is slowing my computer down and how to stop them in order to speed it up. If anyone can give me an answer i would thank you very much.
Name: Golfer Date: March 12, 2009 at 01:19:40 Pacific
Reply:
The Activity Monitor app (Applications/Utilities) will show what programs and services are running.
First though, I'd suggest running a utility like Onyx (free) and run the automation tab to clean out user/app caches, launch databases, repair permissions, etc, will have more benefit than killing a service using Activity Monitor which may cause your system to not function properly.
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