I might add, clicking on the Dock Divider allows you to resize the Dock manually whenever you want to. It is also more difficult to add items to folders on the Dock if the folder icons magnify when you try to drag things over them.
Also if you are hiding the Dock, one of its primary purposes of showing when an application is being launched is defeated. One of the slowdowns many people will notice in X is that some applications do launch relatively slowly.
Wouldn't you rather know that the application is launching than sitting there waiting for a splash screen? The Dock tells you that an application is launching by bouncing its icon. Even when Classic applications are launched, they bounce once in the Dock, and if Classic isn't running, the Classic Startup application shows up in the Dock.
When concerned about speed, it is important to have feedback. No feedback means you could get impatient thinking the machine has froze, when in fact it may just be loading Classic. You can shrink the Dock using the divider between the Applications and Document sections of the Dock.
Sadly they don't yet address Apple's Java 2. Note, most web browsers if they start loading Java will show in the window's bottom that an Applet is loading. I suggest everyone write Apple Feedback about this one, because it was an advertised feature on the box. Java 2. Leaving the Mac on day and night will let daily, weekly, and monthly cleanings of logfiles and other temporary data that the system creates for itself.
If you can't leave it on day and night because of frequent electrical outages, there is a utility which does this for you on your own time, though you need to remember the password you created for yourself when you first installed X to use it.
You can run the Periodic Logfile Cleanup Applescript , or manually run the daily routines from the program residing in your Applications, Utilities directory called Terminal. Some Apple internal modems may be Global Village script compatible, and I have made additional scripts available at my Modem scripts page.
Be sure to try all similar scripts to see if you can get a better speed and you are dialing up by modem. If you are interested in an internet index of over Macintosh related sites, Feel free to stop by my Mac OS X links page. Not for the weak at heart! If you aren't using Speech in the System Preferences, or you want to install SETI Home both these programs can slow down X, and this is true of other background applications.
Mac OS Still to find out if there are programs you installed that you no longer need that are running, you can "kill" them using this procedure. Be very careful, if you don't know what an application does, don't try to kill it.
A few programs can only be killed by rebooting into 9. You should search for their names using Sherlock in 9. Double click the hard drive X is installed on, Applications folder, and Utilities folder. Double click Terminal 3. SLs SL Ss Rs S Still you might find the Speech process there and you aren't using speech recognition, and you want to kill that.
Sometimes though you will get a process you can't kill because it is a "root" process, and you don't have permission to kill it. Turn off Classic OK, this isn't for everyone, but for those who are ready and have all Carbon and Cocoa drivers and applications. System Preferences, Select the orange 9 icon, and click the button to shut it down.
As fast as the above may have made, you will wish it wasn't so fast now! Classic may sometimes be faster than 9. Your mileage may vary. There are several very good listings of Mac OS X natively compatible applications on this separate page of Macmaps. That might not seem like a big deal, but considering how many times a day you minimize and restore windows just to access what's under them, WindowShade can save you a lot of time.
With its handy controls, all you have to do is double-click the title bar. The miniprogram lets you adjust controls and window opacity. As you'd expect, it doesn't take up a large amount of system resources.
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