Can someone complie a complete OSX optimization post?

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:46 am

I went searching for this and so many came up my head began to spin.

If someone out there like Sooshie or James or some of youreal organized types with some spare time could compact these into one concise sticky, I know I would really appreciate it and I think it would be a real nice add for all of us. Maybe I missed it and it's already been done if so let me know.

Thanks guys. Ya'lls da best!
Gary

Matcher · Post by **Matcher** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:19 pm

I recently looked for the same info, the guys as SOS threw this link->

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:34 pm

FYI That's a dead link.

Matcher · Post by **Matcher** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:47 pm

Ok, it was short of the l in the end

It's ok now.

Maybe you'd also like to check out my post in SOS -> (click the arrow

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Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:32 pm

Very helpful. I remember a few other things like diablotin to turn off fonts and shadow killer which I have set up to work at login.

A concise list and directions on all of this would be nice still.

Cheers,
G

jason.hegener · Post by **jason.hegener** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:41 pm

In a recent issue of MacWorld there was a blurb on a command line method of exiting dashboard.

Does anybody know of an easy way to exit dashboard? I guess I could insert the shell command into a script or automator action, but I've gotten lost trying to program applescript before.

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:53 pm

Yea. I would like to disable dashboard and spotlight if it helps speed.

richardein · Post by **richardein** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:00 pm

I don't think Dashboard on or off helps much - I had it off for a while and noticed nada - but if you go to VersionTracker.com, dollars to donuts there's a script or utility that will do what you want.

Native Instruments also has osx optimization tricks on its website as well.

alobonzo · Post by **alobonzo** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:37 pm

You can disable Dashboard With Onyx application easily.
I post you a link that might help
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_trackin ... index.html
Good luck
Alo

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:24 am

alobonzo wrote:You can disable Dashboard With Onyx application easily.
I post you a link that might help
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_trackin ... index.html
Good luck
Alo

Thanks alobonzo.

Found the link here for Onyx:

http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/O ... -7005.html
http://www.boostware.com/os/mac.html

jason.hegener · Post by **jason.hegener** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:15 am

richardein wrote:I don't think Dashboard on or off helps much

In the same MacWorld article where they described how to turn off dashboard, it stated that each dashboard widget occupies about 5MB of RAM. You can check the actual amount with the Activity Monitor.

I don't recall if they stated how much RAM just the dashboard application sans widgets takes up.

If you're tweaking your system by turning off things like fonts and shadows, it seems to me that turning off dashboard would be a no brainer.

Thanks for the links to Onyx.

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:32 am

I have Onyx loaded but don't see a way to turn off spotlight.

What is the procedure?