OS X tips anyone

deevey · 13-01-2004 12:42pm #1

Anyone any decent tips for speeding up OS X alot, preferably i'd like to ditch the tranparancy and the scaling windows if possible or some decent theme managers that will do the trick,

Looked round the net but havent found much.. not much good

oldish machine but still faster than 9.2.2

Cheers

Steve

lotas · 19-01-2004 11:54am

check out this page. some nice tips there. check it out. not sure about speed tips though.

Hugh_C · 19-01-2004 9:15pm

look no further than Mac OS X Hints

lotas · 20-01-2004 6:23am

emmm, hughchal, thats what i just said.

Gordon · 20-01-2004 6:44am

Get 'transparent dock', that should start you off on the right foot.

Hugh_C · 20-01-2004 8:47pm

Originally posted by lotas
emmm, hughchal, thats what i just said.

Yeah but I said it much better

A descriptive link wouldn't have hurt... (as opposed to just 'this page')

lotas · 20-01-2004 9:09pm

interesting theory, but still. i win!! :P

Gordon · 21-01-2004 6:54am

Tinker tool

(I tried to find the descriptive link to transparent dock but couldnt!)

deevey · 21-01-2004 9:52pm

well tried transparant dock and ended up with a comp that wouldnt boot into anything but 9 for about 10 mins before i stripped the dir out, tinkertool is great for some things (fonts smoothing espessially) but no great speed improvments

Tried a few themes too, what i really want to get rid of is the blasted scale / genie effects that are sooooo annoying and slowing me down to hell if i have a few things open..

Thanks anyhows keep em coming

P.S. should mention its panther

Gordon · 22-01-2004 7:18am

You can get rid of scale and genie from sys prefs can't you?

luckat · 22-01-2004 8:28am

I got MacJanitor from VersionTracker, and it's speeded things up nicely. It runs something called Cron scripts, and seems to be the Xquivalent of rebuilding the desktop. You install it, then run the daily, weekly and monthly tasks, restart, and voila! A new machine!

Gordon · 02-02-2004 7:18am

How could I forget Mox Optimiser .

ZENER · 03-02-2004 8:58pm

You can get rid of scale and genie from sys prefs can't you?

You sure can it's in the Dock preferences panel, just turn off the animated window thingy ! Makes a difference to slower Macs under OS X.

Tinky

deevey · 04-02-2004 2:33am

Nope turning off the animation doesnt stop the sacle genie effect, just turns off general animations for icons opening n all, cant seem to find any prog that allows you to turn off that option

setting it to fastest seems to be the best i an do

pity

cheers for all the links anyhoo

ZENER · 04-02-2004 10:10am

With reference to MOX, does anyone know of a list of services that can safely be turned off. I've disabled the SCSI drivers using MOX but I'm sure there are plenty more I could disable. I presume that, like windows, disabling services and device drivers not required can help speed things up a bit.

Thanks

Tinky

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