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    MBP boot time slowed down

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hoolyproductions, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    I have had my new MBP for a couple of weeks. When I first got it the boot time was pretty sharp... I guess a little over 30 seconds.

    Now it has slowed to closer to a minute. I have not put a particularly large amount of software on it:

    Aperture, photoshop, mpfreaker, candybar, skype, firefox etc.

    It seemed to happen around the time I started using candy bar, but I cant swear to it.

    Any ideas? I tried doing a safe boot and repairing permissions. It found and fixed a couple of problems but didnt affect the boot time. :)
     
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  2. Budding

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    Check the login items System Pref>Accounts>Login Items, anything unnecessary there?
     
    Budding, Mar 29, 2008
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    gms238 Notebook Consultant

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    I had the same problem occur to me, but maybe with a few different perameters.
    I had a C2D MBP purchased in June of '07, Tiger installed. It screamed fast when I opened it up. Then I installed Leopard and something hit the brakes. I was about to do a full wipe and re-install of everything when I did something I should have done from the first.
    I was using an Epson C88 printer and found that I needed to update the drivers for the printer. I downloaded the newest driver, installed it, restarted the Mac and my speed was back! Wasn't the Mac's fault, Leopard's fault, I just needed to update drivers.
    Point being: if you've added several programs and such, make sure everything is up to date and see if that doesn't help.
     
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  4. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for the replies guys.

    The only items I have at log in are iTunes helper, Labtick, growl helper and quicksilver.

    The lag to boot seems to be more at the beginning, when still on the grey screen and before logging on to my user account.

    A system re-install is the only thing I can think of trying now. What a pain!
     
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    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    Well I ran the 'automated' actions in Onyx and the boot is noticeably snappier now. Still a little over 30 seconds but that will do for now :)
     
    hoolyproductions, Mar 31, 2008
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