iCreate - UK (2019-08)

Speed Up Your Mac

Twe a k yo u r D o c k s e t t i n g s

Macs are great for fancy special effects, but

disabling them can speed your Mac up...

Kill the zoom

Go to System

Preferences>Dock and

start off by unchecking the

‘Magnification’ option so you

can’t enlarge sections of the

Dock as you hover your

cursor over them.

Disable

animations

Also uncheck the ‘Animate

opening applications’

option and, if you want

to get really picky, the

‘Automatically hide and

show the Dock’ option too.

Scaleyour

windows

Setthe‘Minimizewindows

using:’optionto ‘Scaleeffect’.

Havingit setto Genieeffect

playsa pointlessdownscaling

animationwhenyouminimise

yourwindows.

1

Grabanapp

Gotofreemacsoft.netanddownload

thefreeAppCleanerapp.Launchit andthe

interfacewillconsistofa smallwindowinto

whichyoudragunwantedapplications.

2

Select anapp

NavigatetoyourApplicationsfolderand

dragtheiconofanapptouninstallintothe

AppCleanerwindow.It willscanforallfiles

associatedwiththatapponyourMac.

3

Removeapp

WhenAppCleanerpresentsa listoffiles

associatedwiththeapp,tickthemalland

clickon‘Remove’.Enteryourusernameand

passwordandtheappwilldeletethelot.

Uninstall software

you don’t use

Howtoremovealltraceofunwantedapps

Reduce transparency

You can also speed up your Mac by

reducing the transparency of the Dock.

To do this, go to System Preferences>

Accessibility>Display and tick the

‘Reduce transparency’ option.

We have already looked at one

way of removing apps by using

your Mac’s built-in storage

optimising utility, but here we take

a look at another. Because just

deleting apps doesn’t remove all

of the data associated with them

on your hard drive, you will either

need to use the uninstaller for the

specific app you wish to remove or

grab a specialist app that does the

job for you.