Old powerbook running slow

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NotAGolf

NotAGolf

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My gf has an old Powerbook G4 (OS X 10.4.11). Recently the internet has been running like an absolute dog. I thought this was because she doesn't get very good wireless reception in my room but I went downstairs and sat next to the router and it was still slow. I'm talking so slow it couldn't play any youtube videos without severe stuttering.

I then tried switching from Firefox to Safari and miraculously everything was a lot quicker. However, after a few minutes Safari crashed - the reason she switched to firefox a few months back.

So I was wondering if there was some kind of clean up you can do on macs that might give it a bit of a kick up the arse and get it back into shape? I only use windows so don't know much about macs, but on a windows machine I'd maybe do the following to sort it out; checkdisk, defrag, virus scan, malware/spyware scan, crap cleaner, registry cleaner etc. (I know mac's are different so might not need a virus scanner or defragger but you get the idea!)

Are there any mac equivalents to the above that might help sort it out?

Thanks
 
I only got my mac last week so I'm not to savvy with a lot of app's just yet. However, I did come across this program called clean my mac. I'm not sure if its good as I've never used it but its free to try out.
 
Thanks guys. Downloaded Onyx but I have a new problem, which sounds like it could be the cause of the slowness in the first place.

When I run Onyx it gets to the 'verifying startup volume' check, then it gives an error saying the startup volume needs to be repaired.

From the looks of it I need to run the disk repair facility but after reading around it looks like that comes on the mac startup disk which my gf has handily lost :rolleyes:. Is there another way I can run it without the startup disk? Can I download it form somewhere or even use a 3rd party app?

Thanks again.
 
Just had a look round and come across a possible solution without the disk;
- On start up, press the command and S keys together
- Then on the command line, type: fsck -fy

Which apparently does the same repair as the startup disk would do. So I've got a couple of questions:

1 - Is this a good idea?
2 - What is the likelihood of losing data doing this? (As backing up is tricky with the current setup)
 
Hi I am only familar with leopard and snow leopard. But in these versions in the applications folder under utilities is the disk utility where you can repair permissions and repair the disk.

Cheers

Jeff
 
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