02-05-2017, 08:26 PM
Well, I finally got around to following up a bit. Thanks for all the suggestions.
• I ran Malware bytes. It didn't find anything.
• Downloaded and ran SMART Utility. Hard drive Passed. (Beyond that, I'm not sure what I'm looking for it to tell me and how to interpret the info.)
• Downloaded and ran DetectX. It found some Application Support/Google/Chrome/External Extensions, but I rarely if ever use Chrome, so I'm not sure what that's all about. I have the option to Trash All, but again, I'm not sure what they do and therefore whether I should trash them.
The only thing showing more than 10% usage in Activity Monitor is Firefox, and even that varies from just under 10% to up to 14% or so, even when it's just parked on the forum page.
I'm not prepared to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for an SSD just to speed things up. I remember the old days of "disk optimization". Is that even a factor anymore?
• I ran Malware bytes. It didn't find anything.
• Downloaded and ran SMART Utility. Hard drive Passed. (Beyond that, I'm not sure what I'm looking for it to tell me and how to interpret the info.)
• Downloaded and ran DetectX. It found some Application Support/Google/Chrome/External Extensions, but I rarely if ever use Chrome, so I'm not sure what that's all about. I have the option to Trash All, but again, I'm not sure what they do and therefore whether I should trash them.
The only thing showing more than 10% usage in Activity Monitor is Firefox, and even that varies from just under 10% to up to 14% or so, even when it's just parked on the forum page.
I'm not prepared to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for an SSD just to speed things up. I remember the old days of "disk optimization". Is that even a factor anymore?