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How to start up faster?
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Can anyone here kindly teach me how to check what are being run during start up of iMac? Is there any program that allow me to choose what to start up? I wish to start up within 15s. Thanks.
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Do you mean after logging in to OS X, or during boot up of OS X? There is a keyboard combo to startup in verbose mode (apple V or V, can't remember), all login items are listed in your Accounts pane.
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Originally Posted by besson3c 
Do you mean after logging in to OS X, or during boot up of OS X? There is a keyboard combo to startup in verbose mode (apple V or V, can't remember), all login items are listed in your Accounts pane.
I mean to boot up, how to boot up faster? Thanks for your reply. 
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There is not a whole lot you can do... What kind of things did you have in mind? I'm not sure I understand the purpose of your goals here.
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I believe seasurfer would like to better understand the OS X boot-up process, and how it can be modified to improve his boot times. This may help: Mac OS X System Startup
However ... I'd recommend that you don't f*** with the boot process. OS X caches a ton of different things, so boot-up time will be mostly limited by disk performance and hardware initialization. I upgraded my MBP to a 7200 RPM/perpendicular recording drive, and that halved my boot-time.
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Apart from password pause, I'm pretty sure my iMac as below, with 10.4.11 starts up well within 15", I'll time it next time.
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iMac Intel Core i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 21.5" Monitor 10.8.3.
iMac 17" 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo w 3gb memory (White one) 10.6.8.
Internal 500gb / 8x external HDD's 250GB - 3TB (4x Time Machine)
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Under system preferences - accounts - your account - login items - and clear out some stuff from there.
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You could check that you have no unnecessary apps booting automatically.
[edit] like iMan G5 just said!
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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What kind of Mac do you have? a Intel Mac running 10;5 boots incredibly fast.
The easy answer is: don't shut down. just sleep/hibernate the computer.
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Originally Posted by RevEvs
What kind of Mac do you have? a Intel Mac running 10;5 boots incredibly fast.
The easy answer is: don't shut down. just sleep/hibernate the computer.
I have iMac 2.8Ghz Extreme with 4Gig of RAM, my boot up time is around 33-34 seconds. I wish it can be done within 15s, is that possible at all?
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Just timed mine, as per sig.
15" to password, 5" after password entry, so 20", perhaps even quicker with password disabled.
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iMac Intel Core i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 21.5" Monitor 10.8.3.
iMac 17" 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo w 3gb memory (White one) 10.6.8.
Internal 500gb / 8x external HDD's 250GB - 3TB (4x Time Machine)
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Originally Posted by seasurfer
I have iMac 2.8Ghz Extreme with 4Gig of RAM, my boot up time is around 33-34 seconds. I wish it can be done within 15s, is that possible at all?
Not really, no. Maybe with a faster hard drive.
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Startup Doubler! 
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What are you going to do with all that extra time? 
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Leave it running and U will only have to reboot when you do software updates.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Use sleep.
QFT™
Do you really have a reason to turn your computer off?
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Turn off any Sharing services and set the time and date manually.
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I'm not sure setting the time/date manually will affect startup time. ntpd will start in the background I'm pretty sure.
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