little tips on how to clean your Mac on

everything I'm going to show you today is free so there's nothing that you're

going to have to pay for

basically these are simple ways to clean your Mac

keeping it optimize and fast and

also making sure that hard drive space is not being used up

by cache files and log files that have gotten blown up over time

and you really can't see them unless you kinda dig down

deep into a whole bunch of folders so I'm gonna show you little tips on how to

find

those log files those cache and also

how to simply keep your computers random access memory or virtual memory

as clean and as available as possible so that your applications will run faster

and is not sluggish while you working

so the first thing we're gonna talk about is how to clean your memory

so when I'm speaking about memory I'm talking about random

access memory and one of the applications that I recommend

for this which I've been using and I use actually throughout the day

as I'm working is something called memory clean

II will put a link to this in the comments area of this video

but you can download it for free here or you can

get it in the Apple Store which it's also free and when you download it

just install it

from the Mac App Store like any of the other apps install into your Applications

folder

look for the application called memory clean

but eventually after it installs will put a little

item up here this little clock item that will show you

that you can clean I your memory from this little area so it makes it very

available it also shows you how much memory you have available

and if your memory goes in the red over here it usually means you probably need

to clean it a call for this program is

you actually do not have to restart your computer you can clean your memory or

throughout the day so when is there a big memory hog

that happens while you working you might ask

one of the ways is when you're in photoshop and you

have done a lot of retouching in Photoshop and now that you've done with it

you're not really going to use Photoshop for lets say the next 2 hours

but meanwhile there's a whole bunch of cache that is

space that is kinda being taken up by that program

so a nice way to clean it would be using a program such as this and it's free

so all you do is come up here

click on it and then you hit this little blue button called clean memory

as you can see it's going through the process so we were at shoot gigabytes

let's see if we get any more available

I actually cleaned up before the video so we won't get too much more by

Albert see what if we get a little bit more than 2.3

and here we go almost and its 88 percent nine-b_

and so done and

the in

and look at that I doubt if you could buy as memory

back your ex you now met 3.4

now people working now with interesting about this

is really fall is when I get it earlier I only have one 165

available so imagine I went from 1.65

cue 3.1 to that a lot of extra gigabyte

that can be used for running my application and as you can see nothing

crashed everything still running

so it's not really that big a deal so again the applications for memory clean

you install it you access it from here you here we memory

and you can do this several times as you work on use your computer starting to

get sluggish

just come up here in between memory and you'll see everything will speed up

again

but that's not number one was there in September 2

keep your desktop adapter is possible so a lot of people keep their

folder is as their applications and icon to log their desktop well

it's not a good idea because the more items you have on the desktop

the slower their computers gonna run it's a known fact that

if you overload your desktop folders and files and you fill it up in some people

I've seen people that fast have like a hundred files on them

on and then a look and folders whatever not a good thing

make a folder in your Documents folder and require you to stop

process staff folder at all

leaky the items argue that fact that you're actually using every single day

and if your issue really there's no need to have it on the desktop move it it's

probably not a good idea here

and also i've seen situations where despot yes rock

anything that's on that desktop will also get average so it's not a really

great place to keep all your files via desktop

I'd recommend cleaning it up the next item number three

would be deleting startup items you don't need running in the background

well

the way to get your start a fight it is a very rapid menu buddy system

preferences

you go to user cams and from new user accounts

you have to go to Login Items and as you can see

I have two items that are starting up one is called total finder

which is a plugin that I installed the my last and the second

is iTunes helper which really starts out if I didn't want total for under for

whatever reason not to

it was something that I didn't hit me then I noticed it was in there

I could do a check and I said hit the minus sign

and get rid of it and this will not delete the file

what we'll do is not allow it to run on startup so

only when I'm accessing what's a photo finder which wouldn't work in this case

if the plugin

but it was an application warehouse where amused when I open up that

application those

Apple those helpers and stuff we're gonna rock on

it's not like it's gonna stop it it's okay to keep the items hope for in their

because we do you actually want that running in the background but if you

didn't have 45 more items in here

and you said you know what I don't need those running all the time just do a

check in at minus

and get them out if they're from started of the items

so that's number three number for clearing

clean up your hard drive well a lot of times people

keep their hard right build-up pasady armed

there is a way to look at how much is in your hard drive

I'm you simply on the Finder go to

so and let's see here it is it's our

show status

far I believe that's the one

for I'll we definitely want to see how big these items are

years how much space I have dealt with my dry if you go to

whoa new and show

status for the heart that yep that's it share status for

and you can actually see are the items that are coming up over here

so I North Carolina space available but if this is like

a gay were maybe under a gag I would be a little concerned that you have enough

space so I would definitely recommend

that should go in there and you actually

the week some fought so a lot of people say well you know I'm your files on my

desktop or am I supposed to do

get an external hard drive drop some bombs on their

them away you know you still have them available when you need them but they

don't need to all be on your local computer

so that cleaning up your hard drive and the next one number five

is using a utility for me where you can delete the far

cash and possibly empty the trash so one of the application by recommend for

that is abhorred Arctic and here it is

and I'll literally I in the comment section for that as well

I'm once you actually I download it

you're going to get the energy for older and now far

in your downloads folder and here is the

onyx application if the right loaded the PNG file and

you fish gonna drag that from here to here is your Applications folder and

open it up

want to open up that folder I

I mean that file you're going to you have something that looks like this

and showed that so here's why

at this particular application looks like an

it's going to the first finally started out there a couple questions

just say okay it's been around for a little me startup

check your hardest and that's fine but we're going to focus on one little

area phonics which is cleaning right here so we're gonna

worked on that cleaning utility which is what we're going to work on

we're gonna leave all the defaults and just execute not to cause any problem

then we're gonna go to the user area and were actually

once you hit executed

me that will do it in all of them but I would recommend that you kind of go

through this and make sure

that everything that's left that is really what you want

on what this does is a the leading the cash you know this

successfully cashier the week cash here

and here we need to be an ass fashion

a couple about this you might want to delete the cookies but it's not checked

in

the cookie will affect ask them if your internet password

think so for you not interested in believing that that's okay

the population really important a lot of people

then years and never do this but definitely helps a lot when

you don't have cash I'm it doesn't believe the part that's leading

cache files that are just replaceable their not gonna was a problem the lock

barbequing for the biggest bank because a lot of times

nobody everything's will be blocked father he's far from from

be really that I've seen them on computers picking up

one megabyte space for a lot file that nobody ever told you that

so that's all that check then there's the miscellaneous items that you can

delete

I'm some obsolete items has it now that previous I can fly very

you may not need old I said library if you don't notice that anything

missing from your iTunes and you have a previous life for somewhere

you may not need it but if you're concerned about it you can always and

checked that

on and then a fourth it allows you to delete the trash here

and you have two choices about the trash at this point if you hit

execute which are often because it'll stop this video

on it'll go through the process of all of this and clean it up

and will also feature your trash now or the reason widely the trash it's

important to some people put things in the trash but never actually

MPs and obviously you can go to hear and go to empty trash

you in the face bank but a lot of people just simply forget to do it they just on

empty the trash

and what ends up happening is they don't have the space on your hard drive

because their treasure

well fell why is that important again your programs

need virtual space for virtual memory and it uses your hard drive space to run

the program so if you're wondering why we have Photoshop open

and your mail program open in the web browser and said only

you're freezing

your computer is going slow its run out of memory and it has no more manly

lot of people say well by increased the Ramble speed up

well it depends whites well is it slow be close

you have usual our Father caches that need be deleted or is it slow

because of other reasons like the hard drive doesn't have any space

ninety percent of the people come over to me and say to me my computer is

running slow

and the first thing we do is check the space at the computer if we see that

there is no space

we definitely on know that that's probably what the slowdown itself the

best tips I can give you

is that five that have fun real and I would recommend

are trying out this free program called onyx I would recommend trying out this

free program for

memory clean and definitely following the other maintenance

steps that I but in this video and I'm also gonna copy and paste that text

father have those steps on it so that you'll be able to refer back to them

and that's right amount on your computer thanks for listening

and hope this helps speed up your computer and optimize your

accolades for you