Total Mikah (Audio)

Hands-On Apple 195: Slow Mac Startup Speeds

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Is your Mac taking forever to start up? Mikah Sargent reveals the hidden culprits slowing down your macOS boot times and walks through proven solutions to get your machine running like new again.

  • Login Items Management - How to identify and remove unnecessary apps that automatically launch at startup using System Settings - General - Login Items and Extensions
  • Terminal Commands for Advanced Users - Using "launchctl list" to view all startup processes and "launchctl remove" to eliminate problematic items from the command line
  • Hidden Launch Agents and Daemons - Navigating to /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons through Finder to manually remove stubborn startup services
  • Spotlight Re-indexing Fix - Using Terminal command "sudo mdutil -E /" to rebuild corrupted Spotlight indexes that can cause system hangups
  • Cache Clearing Strategy - Removing cached files from ~/Library/Caches and /Library/Caches to free up system resources
  • Visual Effects Optimization - Disabling animations, transparency effects, and the genie effect in Accessibility settings to reduce graphics processing load
  • Stage Manager Performance - Why turning off Stage Manager can help improve startup times on older Macs

    • Host: Mikah Sargent

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