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it's inevitable after a few years that once shiny new Mac will begin to slow down sure it may be frustrating and you may want to go out and buy a new one but there's no need because there are a number of ways you may be able to regain some speed but before you engage in any maintenance it's recommended that you backup your data to an external drive which you can easily do using the Mac's built-in time machine feature the first thing you want to do is check for our software update new versions of Mac OS contain performance enhancements and security improvements to keep your Mac running smoothly and safely head to the Mac App Store and click on the update tab to see if there are any updates available now over the years you've probably cluttered your Mac with files and applications you no longer use or need if this is the case it's time to do some cleaning start by looking in the Applications folder if there are apps in there you can't remember installing or never used simply move into the trash to reclaim some hard drive space just don't forget to empty the trash out every once in a while next up you will want to go through and either delete old files or add them to a cloud service like Google Drive or iCloud open the finder and select a folder from the sidebar for example I'm gonna choose the download folder next click to sort them by size and delete the larger files you no longer need you will also have the option of dragging and dropping the file to a cloud service for safekeeping this way you'll be able to free up some space on your Mac while still being able to access important documents now if your Mac is slow to boot up the problem may be there are simply too many applications to open at startup it's likely you never set these apps to launch but some apps are set by default to change this head to System Preferences followed by users and groups then click on the login items tab in the top right to see a list of apps that open when you boot up your Mac now simply remove the check marks from the apps you no longer want to open up start now if you have done all of this and nothing has changed there is the option of upgrading to a faster hard drive like a solid-state drive or adding more RAM this method won't work on all Macs especially newer models and whilst not too difficult some novice users may be better off simply buying a new computer to see how to swap a hard drive or add more RAM check out how to Zena