[X-Newbies] Slow, slow, slow computing

[Mike]

Try running a utility like Cocktail, Macaroni or Onyx. That should  
help. Also, freeing up space is a good plan given how small your  
available free space is on your OS X partition.
On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:40 AM, R.C.Dickins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a desperate newcomer to this list. I live in a small  
> midwestern city of 135,000, where Macs are not sold and where I  
> know only one other Mac user. Not only are Mac users rare, but  
> conversations concerning Macs are even more rare. Consequently, I  
> apologize if you have heard my problems before. If so, however, I  
> am also hoping that you will know a lot of solutions and I hope  
> that's so. I have a home business of putting out documents and  
> newsletters and need to keep my computer going.
>
> I have a Power Macintosh G3 which runs on a 266 MHz processor and  
> has 576MB of memory. The hard disk is divided into the following  
> sections:
>
> Mac OSX 10.2.8 with 6.8GB (1.3 GB Free)
> Mac Storage with 43.6 GB (41.7 GB Free)
> Mac OS 9.2 with 6.8 GB (5.6 GB Free)
>
> When I am in Mac OSX, the computer seems to run more slowly every  
> day. Mail and Word for Mac are particularly slow and I sometimes  
> lose Word when I am working on charts. A check with Norton Disk  
> Doctor does not reveal any problems and only light fragmentation.
>
> Could it help to move things to Mac Storage to give more room to  
> OSX? What kinds of things can I move?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts you may have.
>
> Muddled in the Midwest
>
>
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