Bad HardDrive? If your computer is very slow it can also be a symptom of a hard drive that is going bad especially if it makes strange noises.

Hi I'm using Word for Mac 2004 on a new macbook w/ Leopard. Scrolling down a document with either the mouse wheel or the sidebar has been very slow (it.

Setting a different default printer normally resolves this.

But I don't think we're doing the format-at-end approach to references because it's too much work for something that only affects Word for Mac, and I think we can get almost the same performance without it.

People have and Task Manager and looked at memory use and there is zero indication that anything is proceeding under the hood. Thirty seconds later, out of nowhere, Excel starts up. There is very little pattern to when this problem occurs, as far as I can tell from Googling around. It has happened to me on my desktop and on several laptops; on computers upgraded from Windows 7/8 and computers with clean installs of Windows 10; on computers with Office 2013 and Office 2016. I replaced my desktop computer in part to get a fresh start on this problem; it turned up almost immediately and has never left. Yet I have only rarely heard about it from clients, and there are only scattered reports online.

Now I'm writing up my thesis (at the moment 106 references) and Zotero is getting slower and slower. I've arrived at a point where it has become almost unusable.

Internet plug-ins can also cause problems, especially older plug-ins with newer web browsers. Plug-ins tend to get installed automatically as you visit websites over the years, but rarely get uninstalled. Do you really need the RealPlayer plug-in from 2005 any longer? Check the following two folders and as above, prune out anything you recognize as unneeded or more than three years out of date: Macintosh HD –> Library –> Internet Plug-Ins Macintosh HD –> Users –> Your Home Folder –> Library –> Internet Plug-Ins After removing any Login items, LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons or old plug-ins, reboot the Mac. Install more RAM and manage Mac memory better Your Mac uses RAM to store data that the computer is actively using. The more RAM you have, the more programs you can run simultaneously with less need to cache and store data on the much-slower disk storage.

It's a massive slouch, even more so than Microsoft Office 2016. I hate to say this but the macOS version of LibreOffice is just plain horrible and utterly useless. And no, it's not a hardware of software issue because I've seen this for years on various Macs and various versions of macOS/OS X. It was still somewhat usable on non-Retina Macs but with a Retina MacBook Pro, MacBook, or iMac 4K/5K it's a major PITA. That said Word or Excel 2016 take no more than 2-4 bounces to launch on my 2017 iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive. I was getting annoyed that both Word and Excel were taking ages to launch on my new Retina 27' iMac. All other applications launch nearly instantly, but Word and Excel always took around 12 bounces.

Then this EUREKA moment came to me. I used to have an external HD for my Mac SE years ago and it turned the trick for me then, so I figured “why not again.” I just purchased the G-Tech 1TB G-DRIVE mobile USB 3.0 Hard Drive (5400 rpm) – Special Edition from Apple for my iMac. Price was unbelievably affordable! 1TB is 1000 GB’s of storage space.

• Optimize Notification center and turn off real-time notifications you don't need. • Disable Launchpad effects. • Get rid of preference panes. Is office for mac compatible high sierra. Go to System Preferences, locate a pane you want to remove, right click (or Control-click), then remove it from the pop-up menu. It may ask you to type admin password.