<div>I don't have a lot of experience with Mac's but I do with memory limited PC's. I would definitely empty the trash bin, and any temporary internet files (if you are using the internet), and other temporary files that you are sure aren't needed. Of course, if you trashed the icon for the hard drive, restore it first; since you rebuilt the desktop you probably have restored the icon already. After you get rid of all the temp files, power down the Mac, wait a bit, and then reboot.</div> <div>If you have anything like a "Favorites" internet sites list, try and get rid of the excess never used stuff. This may not solve a more serious problem with the file structure, but it should help otherwise.</div> <div>Uninstalling programs you never use will help reduce the garbage on the hard drive.</div> <div>Almost forgot, if you use internet, get rid of all the cookies every day. They will slow down your computer a lot.</div> <div>Art is Silicon
Valley<BR><BR><B><I>mko@nt.net</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>It's alive the list is <BR>>alive.<BR><BR>Yes! Nice to see what a little poke can do. <BR>:^,~ <BR><BR>While we're all here, I'll lob a little prob: <BR><BR>My OS9 Finder has slowed down to a pubcrawl. <BR>When I doubleclick an app alias on my desktop, <BR>or use the Recent Apps under the Apple Menu, <BR>nothing happens for at least 10 seconds. The <BR>Finder itself is live; I can drag/draw rectangles <BR>while I'm waiting, as a test. <BR>I use a USB Cardbus which I trash/eject before <BR>I pack up the p'book. A month ago I must've <BR>trashed the hard drive icon by mistake, because I <BR>got the dreaded <FINDER Quit Unexpectedly>box. <BR>I'm 80% sure this caused my slowdown, and I'm <BR>90% sure that the cure is a re-install of OS9, but <BR>I thought I'd fish for a simpler fix first.<BR>I already rebuilt the
desktop, and zapped the pram. <BR>No joy. I mean, what could it possibly be doing for <BR>10 secs? That's like forever in dog-years. Is it a <BR>memory thing? Broken alias thing?<BR><BR>p.s. there's 7.28 gigs in my Trash. That wouldn't <BR>do something bad, would it? I hate to throw <BR>anything out...<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>DuoList mailing list<BR>DuoList@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<BR>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/duolist<BR><BR>Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:<BR>http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>