Your Mac is running a bit slow.

While there is no definitive cure-all for making your machine as good (and as fast)

as day one, there are some basic things you can do that might help reclaim disk space, remove some clutter

and generally speed up your Mac.

Recover Hard Disk space

Take a hard look at your applications folder

Delete unused language packs.

Know what you’re storing.

Speed Up Slow Applications

Safari

Firefox

Dashboard

Universal binaries

General System Tips

Clean Out Your Startup Items

Clean Up Your Desktop

Fonts

Things that Won’t Help No Matter What the ‘Pros’ in Forums Tell You

• Repairing File Permissions — The uneducated Mac users favorite cure-all, which in fact does next to nothing. Unless you’re having problems logging in or using certain system files, this won’t do anything for you. It certainly won’t speed up your Mac.

• Speed up Safari by reducing the “page load delay” — Lead Safari programmer David Hyatt says, “the preference in question is dead and does absolutely nothing in Safari.” Trust him, he created it.

• Updating Prebinding — Prebinding is updated when apps are launched (and when new ones are installed), there’s no need to do it by hand.

See more in: Wired.com