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Speeding up my response on my imac
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: sudbury, ontario, canada
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dear macnn forumers:
I am the owner of a imac 15" g4 (800 mhz), here are my specs below:
G4 800
768 mb ram (512 of it kingston, 256 stock)
2x superdrive (pioneer 104)
60 GB harddrive
Panther (10.3.4)
Right now I find my system is not responsive enough, like when I click on something there is a delay (or when I type, etc.). I was thinking of replacing the stock 256 built in portion, but I wanted to get some more experienced mac users opinion on the subject. Here are some of the programs I use, FYI. I was also thinking of replacing the superdriver while I was at it... I want your guys opinions on these possibilities given the criteria below:
office x (all the apps)
iapps (all of them) + garageband
safari
photoshop (newest version)
I love this macine, but the responsiveness part is kind of annoying, kind of like the fly in the ointment kind of deal. I would appreciate the assitance.
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CCCC- Serbs should know what that means
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: sudbury, ontario, canada
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oh yeah, my video card is a nvidia geforce 2 mx 32 mb....
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CCCC- Serbs should know what that means
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: sudbury, ontario, canada
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oh yeah, my video card is a nvidia geforce 2 mx 32 mb....
heres another question for you people (sorry), i ran "top" in the terminal and theres a program called Vshieldcor, thats using up between 25 and 33% of my cpu, what does this program do, does this have to do with macafee's virus shield? I thought I got rid of it, but maybe I did not (I just nuked the folder in applications). Peoples assitance would be much appreciated
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CCCC- Serbs should know what that means
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Get the PID for vshield core from top and then issue this in console to kill vshield and see if your responsiveness improves 'sudo kill -9 PID' without the ' marks. Sudo will prompt you for your admin password. If you don't want to use the terminal bring up process viewer and try to kill it via that if it's not a root process.
Go to System Preferences, Login Items and see if McAfee is loading something at boot time. Delete any McAfee entry you find there.
Do a Find for McAfee to identify if there are lingering elements of the prog somewhere still starting up. Might start with vhsield...
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iMac - C2D, 2.8Ghz, 4GB, 320GB
MacBook - C2D, 2.4Ghz Uni, 4GB, 500GB
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Hyrule
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vshield IS a mcaffee app isn't it? *Duh*
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Aloha
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Link..I know that..and you know that...but it didn't seem bob knew that.
When somebody is unsure you really can't give them a *Duh* if they didn't know ... now can you 
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iMac - C2D, 2.8Ghz, 4GB, 320GB
MacBook - C2D, 2.4Ghz Uni, 4GB, 500GB
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