52 Ways OS X can be Speed Up
I remember doing a meeting topic of How to Keep Your Mac Healthy" in the Classic OS Days. This sounds like this could be a good topic to discuss as well.
Some of the suggestions:
General System
1. Repair Disk Permissions
2. Clear out login items
3. Clear out unwanted applications
4. Clear out unused system preferences
5. Clear Desktop
6. Empty Trash
Eye Candy
17. Remove dock animation
18. Avoid animated desktops
Dashboard
Maintenance
31. Repair Disk Permissions.
32. Run Maintenance Scripts.
33. Reset Spotlight Index (it may take over a day to rebuild the index afterwards).
34. Run complete system optimization.
Cleaning
35. Clear Internet Settings.
36. Clear User and Font Caches.
Automation
39. Check settings - The default settings should be fine here. Click Execute.
Safari
40. Clear Cache.
41. Clear History.
42. Clear AutoFill.
43. Clear Favicons.
Firefox
44. If you use Firefox then you can get specially optimized versions of the browser based on your processor architecture - either G4, G5 or intel.
Other
47. HP Printer drivers can often cause problems and use a lot of processor power
48. Check Classic is not running if not being used.
49. Run Software Update.
50. Update other applications.
51. Add More RAM.
52. Reboot your Mac.
Additionally there are links for other ideas on optimization.
Read it here.
Be sure to read the comments for further ideas.
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