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• Can old window updates slow down my computer?

  I had my count widow XP since 2000 and I never deleted window updates.  Could only slow down my computer?

  N °

  Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by a third-party software
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  See: http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

  5 ways to speed up your PC

  By following a few simple rules, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly. This article explains how to use the tools available in Windows 7, Vista and XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to more effectively maintain your computer and protect your privacy when you're online.

• My Imac is slowing down, how to fix this? He is 5 years old

  My Imac is 5 years old now and it is a bit slow - how can I speed things up?  I have OSX El Capitan 10.11.2.

  Thank you

  Hello

  What you can try is to upgrade the Rams and do a clean install of the OS, after you make a backup, but because the unit is old, it is normal to slow down.

  I hope it helps.

  Have a blessed day!

• My Vista crashed and I've switched back to XP. Now I have 1mil more old files compressed that I can't get rid of and it slows down the computer. How can I get rid of these files

  My Vista crashed and I've switched back to XP. Now I have 1mil more old files compressed that I can't get rid of and it slows down the computer. How can I get rid of these files.

  Hello

  1 are. what type of files?
  2. when they are stored?

  3. What is the size of these compressed files?

  Try to perform the clean boot on the computer and check if that helps.

  Reference:
  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  See the bottom of the articles that might help you resolve this problem.
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• Tecra 9000 fan slows down machine

  I've updated all Toshiba drivers and software. Used the latest version of the Toshiba BIOS and ran through the power bound parameters. Yet, if I work, and the fan is used, then my system temporarily slows down until the fan speed. The same is true when he slows down the fan. Really, I hate this behavior and hope there is a way that the fan is more intelligent and continues to run at a speed of averge required to maintain the freshness of the system and does not slow down Windows of course.
  PS: I run WindowsXP SP2 with all updates possible.

  Hi Gert

  To protect against overheating of the CPU has an internal temperature sensor. If the temperature s computer reaches a certain level, the fan is activated. If the cooling system doesn t cool the CPU enough, processing speed is lowered.
  Well, in this case the fans don't work correctly because there are dirty or dust. I think you should try to clean the vents. You can use the vacuum.

  Good luck

  Best regards

• If enable FileVault slow down my Macbook Pro Late 2011 13 '?

  Hello world

  Internet is a crazy jungle is crazy every day, in order to protect myself I plan the activation of FileVault, I use an old Macbook Pro 13 "Late 2011 model with 8 GB of ram and a disc hard 500 GB Mavericks.

  Activation of FileVault make very slow or slow down?

  I have a Time Capsule and Time Machine backups for it which are not encrypted, will turn on FileVault no problem or encrypt everything on the next backup?

  Thank you!

  No, not once the conversion is completed, you should see no difference.

  FileVault encrypts only locally.

  Time Machine encryption is a separate setting in Time machine if you want that it encrypted on back up.

  OS X El Capitan: secure your Time Machine backup disk

• Satellite P35-S605 slows down after a few minutes, then BSOD

  I am running Windows XP Pro and have contributed the most to the RAM on my P35.

  I had a local computer repair shop disassemble, clean all the dust and junk on, remove the processor and reinstall using thermal transfer compound. The computer has worked fine until I did this. When I came back and turned it on it started OK but started to slow down until the barley by working, and then I got the BSOD. After the memory dump, it restarted and repeat the process. After having tried several reboots, I finally gave up and called the computer repair shop I had used and returned to them. After a day, they said, it must be my drive hard because they replaced my hard drive with one of their and he ran all night with no problems. I had an old hard drive that I had removed from this machine, a few weeks before to move to a bigger so I put the old back road. The same problem remained. I again called the repair shop and told them what I had done, but they said they couldn't help me. I'm not recommedn this shop to anyone.

  I was myself so after that reading many articles on the Internet, I desided to try to fix it myself. I erased the hard disk using a set 0 wipe the program. I did a disk image using Acronis before I took the computer to the repair shop, so I have restored the image. I still have the same problem!

  Someone at - it suggestions on what I might try (other than a clean reinstall of Windows).

  Say the event viewer when you start after an accident?

  Personally I'll be back to the top of what you need and try a new installation of windows.

  Check Device Manager and see if there is something contradictory too...

  In fact what would be useful is if you can list the steps you have tried so far, so we don't waste your time with useless suggestions :)

  I'll be watching this thread for an answer, so I'll get back to you.

• Games slow down a computer?

  I played Command and Conquer 4 on my computer very old. It can be played, but the graphics are bad and it is very slow. If I continue to play the computer may crash. So I had planned to play on my new computer. But my parents do not allow that. Reasons are

  1. Games can have viruses.
  2. Viruses can hack into my computer and get information, such as bank accounts. (I installed Bitdefender 2010 IPSec)
  3. Games make my computer unreliable and slow.

  Can you check for me if these reasons are true. I know too many games running at the same TIME will be a slow computer. But what happens if my requirements meet the minimum requirements for the games, it slows down the computer? Also, I defrag and cleaning my PC regularly so do not understand that my computer will do to appear slowly over a short period of time (1 year).

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  Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40 GHz
  45nm Penryn technology
  RAM
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  Hello TechKid.  Feel free to forward this message to your parents *.

  (1) their original CD-ROM or DVD-ROM games will not have the virus.  Back in the olden days where game was on a disk that it was possible that a set of second hand could have been infected, simply because the disks could be written after the fact.  Actually I've ever met.

  (2) a bit, (but still once falsely assume original games of detail will virus), in practice, they are much more wet than that.  Decent anti-malware and ensuring your machine and all the software connected to the internet is updated will solve this problem.

  (3) not true.  While the game is running, they are obviously fewer resources for other things.  But once the game has been closed it will not use all of the system resources.  In regard to making them unreliable, more wrong.

  * It won't do anything, they don't want to play you games on this machine, they will come with any excuse for this purpose.

  Anyway on this system, I think that you should always keep the graphics on their low settings, the graphics card is a budget card, not suitable for games.

  Paul Smith - MVP for Windows desktop experience... I crawled off NNTP - for now. Detachment Aldershot, United Kingdom. On the internet atwindowsresource.net anddasmirnov.net. Please post back to let us know what works and what does not. :) And if a response is useful mark it as such. :)

• slows down showing him the letter that I type and freezes!

  I'm having a problem when I'm in line for about an hour, the letters, I'm typing appears or after a few seconds before they show.  The computer starts to slow down displays a small icon which is red and white as a hairdressing salon and then starts blocking far I can not close anything.  What is the problem and can I fix myslef. I am old and I dunno much about puters!

  Start with the basics:

  http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

  If you can't do the work yourself (and there is no shame in admitting this isn't your cup of tea), take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). Please be aware that not all shops are skilled at removing malware, and even if they are, your computer may be so infested that Windows will have to be properly installed. If possible, have all your data backed up before taking the machine into a shop.
  MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• Will be older, slower, diskless / nodes consumption slow down a VSAN system?

  Hello

  We have a 6 identical VSAN contributing storage of cluster nodes.
  We have also two old machines (think generation Proliant G7), which are simply 'broad' and we thought to use these two to host performance reduced, not part of the virtual computer, which we have many offshore.

  Question: these two boxes older, which are much slower than today's material, will drag down the performance of the entire solution VSAN. 6 nodes, contributors 'feel' the presence of these aging and all devices slow down?

  There are best practices do not use a cluster asymmetric but does that refer to contribute nodes only?  I understand that the nodes 'consumers only', basically just "sitting there" but when will be the part of the Cluster vSAN, they have a negative impact? If so, why?

  The network connections will be 10 gig and identical to the 6 contributing nodes. It's just the performance of the processor that are slower.

  We will use the affinity / no affinity rules to keep those "low performance" VM on these older machines.

  Kind regards

  Steven

  Hello, this is my understanding of your configuration.  6 new nodes in a cluster of vSAN contributing storage.  2 old nodes in a cluster of vSAN contribute not storage.  I would not expect the old 2 knots to affect performance.  Just my opinion, no way for me to provide proof.  Thank you, Zach.

• Creative cloud slows down my computer

  Hello

  Screen Grab 1: Time, I woke up my Mac (09: 28:52)

  

  Screen Grab 2: Image of Sync still running an hour and ten minutes after that my computer has woken up!

  When my MAC wakes first, and CC tries to run, it slows down the right of the computer. Trying to run what is slow, but launch anything that connects to the internet (browser/email) gets badly done!

  I checked my activity monitor...

  

  Screen Grab 3: Shows the use of the processor (in percentage) where my computer was first wakes up.

  Screen Grab 4: Shows the CPU usage after Firefox and Mail ended launch and the core of the CPU usage is a CC Adobe software.

  Screen Grab 5: Indicates consumption of energy by my computer, new CC is upstairs.

  Screen Grab 6: Is my settings. At the speed of transfer of 100%, I have no chance of any other connection to the internet at startup. 75%-100% during the working day it slows down my computer if I am trying to update the browser, while he was working on a Web site, and CC is something synchronization attempt. I have a 50MB connection.

  I have been informed that sync is sometimes a bit weird if the computer has been stopped during a synchronization. I usually check the blue transfer the arrows are not in the top bar, meaning CC is not synchronized. I also use a HP laptop and it is all too slow there when he wakes up first of all, although not too bad, only about 10 minutes waiting.

  It seems to be a major problem with CC to get IT done by someone to turn off their computer. In order to always try to connect and run more than an hour after the computer has been awakened is ridiculous! It has not always connected (11:09)!

  I just can't use it any more and switch to Dropbox, turning off Sync and just using CC for updating applications. It has the potential to be a great and useful application, but fell short with his excessive CPU and energy consumption. The fact that if you turn it off during a synchronization, he throws his toys out of the pram is bad. People will often have to do, for example work on a train and the connection is lost during synchronization, or they need to close the lid of your laptop to get off the train quickly.

  It took until 11:20 to connect and synchronize, almost 2 hours after my computer started!

  Another issue is he says: 'some files impossible to sync' on the MAC, but the same files on the PC CC are fine? What is everything?

  

  "All the files" on the left are the PC this morning. "Some cannot synchronize files" is the MAC this morning, exactly the same files. The files are the "_notes" that produces your product, Dreamweaver. BUT, as you can see from the screenshot below, some "_notes" folders are marked green and some red exclamation points! Why? How the names of file folders to be OK and NOT OK? Fortunately this is an old site, I should remove from CC, I no longer guard _notes' because of this problem.

  Specifications (although I had different MACS with higher specifications and it still happens):

  Mac Mini (late 2014)

  OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

  2.6 GHz Intel Core i5

  8 GB memory

  Iris 1536 MB Intel graphics card

  1 TB Sata Drive (852 GB free space)

  HP Pavilion 17G015NA laptop

  10 64-bit Windows Home

  Intel Core i5

  2.2 GHz

  8 GB memory

  1 TB of disk (816 GB of free space)

  I had a major problem the other day. CC finally synchronized, so I thought and has started working on a site and transferred my files, with the new Foundation 6 scripts. Not realizing he had not really synchronized and the files I'm downloading came from the day before and not the previous night - when I was working on them on my laptop. I had to start my laptop, trying to stop him immediately synchronization, so that I can download the latest files form the previous night, then upload them to my local folder on my Mac. It is unfortunately the only way I know for sure that I have the latest files on each computer. Download them from the server I can't trust what has been synchronized by CC. It surely beats the purpose of the CC, in what it is supposed to allow users to access the same files on each machine. I can't wait for nearly two hours for CC to sync my MAC with what I worked the day before on the HP. It slows down my computer and makes it unusable for about 15-20 minutes.

  Please let me know when you sort Adobe.

  See you soon

  Glynn

  Hi Gregory:

  Apologizes for your stress. We need more information to understand your question and could you please send us the logs on your two computers using tool log collector that can be downloaded from https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-log-collector.htmland send me it to [email protected].? We would like to address your problem and provide the solution.

  Please provide the information below:

  • Adobe ID:
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  • You use creative collaboration Cloud:
  • How many computers you use with creative cloud:
  • Type of internet connection (Ethernet/WiFi):
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  • Firewall (no/company/Local):
  • Time zone of your computer:

  Best regards

  Lin

• Flash slows down FF hangs with message "not responding".

  Shockwave flash is causing crashes giving the message 'firefox is not responding' and slows down my internet experience. I know it's the add-on flash because when I disable it, firefox works much better. I tried all the suggestions concerning problems of flash on this site and nothing worked. I am running win 7 64 bit (Home premium). In addition, Firefox 36.0.1. All the drivers seem to be aware, but I'll check.

  My question is... is it possible to easily disable/enable flash without going into the Add-ons Manager? According to what I'm doing, I'm in crashes and Add-ons for him Manager allow either when I need it or disable it when firefox is slow.

  I've gotten to the point where I just open add-on Manager in a tab and the leave it open because I know I'll probably be in there turn flash on or off depending on the way in which its make my machine.

  Also, I tried flash running in mode 'request to activate', but you must reload the page so that it can find the add-on.

  This problem has been ongoing for a few months now; Performance of Firefox was so much better, but this problem does not appear to be resolved. I love firefox, I really want to go to a different browser.

  Thank you
  Duke

  Please ignore the above answer!

  One of the reasons frequent slow script errors are the feature of mode of the Flash player plugin. The Protected Mode feature has safety benefits, but there seem to be some compatibility issues on some systems. You can turn it off by creating or modifying a parameter file. The following/post pages which provide different approaches:

  • Adobe technical support under the heading of 'Last resort' article: Adobe Forums: how to fix protected Flash Player for Firefox mode?
  • Manual steps: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/968190?page=5#answer-509209
  • Batch file to automate the manual steps: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/982093#answer-518078 (alternative version of file batch of Carm with some modifications by me: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=f7d304d92388737d & id = F7D304D9238...)

  To download the Flash completely (closing and restarting Firefox could help) until it takes effect.

  Any improvement?

• OSX El Capitan slows down

  My desktop computer Mac seems to slow down.

  I see too many beachballing when apps.

  Even between tabs accuses Safari.

  Here is my EtreCheck report.

  The inability, according to some of RAM is new to me, I had not seen this before.

  I would like to help to get my Mac back to the current.

  EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)

  Report generated 2016-06-29 14:43:13

  Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

  Time 05:06

  Performance: Below average

  Click the [Support] links to help with non-Apple products.

  Click [details] for more information on this line.

  Problem: Beachballing

  Description:

  Computer is too slow

  Hardware Information: ⓘ

  iMac (21.5 inch, at the end of 2013)

  [Data sheet] - [User Guide] - [warranty & Service]

  iMac - model: iMac14, 3

  1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 strands

  8 GB of RAM expandable - [Instructions]

  BANK 0/DIMM0

  OK 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

  BANK 1/DIMM0

  OK 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

  Bluetooth: Good - transfer/Airdrop2 taken in charge

  Wireless: unknown

  Video information: ⓘ

  NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 1024 MB

  iMac, 1920 x 1080

  Software: ⓘ

  OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 (15F34) - since the start time: about 4 days

  Disc information: ⓘ

  HTS541010A9E662 disk HARD APPLE disk0: (1 TB) (rotation)

  EFI (disk0s1) < not mounted >: 210 MB

  iMac HD (disk0s2) /: 999,35 go-go (388,48 free)

  Recovery HD (disk0s3) < not mounted > [recovery]: 650 MB

  USB information: ⓘ

  Apple Inc. BRCM20702 hub.

  Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB host controller.

  Apple Inc. FaceTime HD camera (built-in)

  Reader SuperDrive for MacBook Air Apple Inc..

  Lightning information: ⓘ

  Apple Inc. Thunderbolt_bus.

  Guardian: ⓘ

  Mac App Store and identified developers

  Kernel extensions: ⓘ

  ~/Library/application support/transmission/transmission Disk.app

  com.panic.TransmitDisk.transmitdiskfs [no charge] (4.0.0 - 10.6 SDK - 2014-10-02) [Support]

  Launch system officers: ⓘ

  [loaded] 8 tasks Apple

  [loading] 145 tasks Apple

  [operation] 80 tasks Apple

  [killed] 5 tasks of Apple

  5 killed process lack of RAM

  Launch system demons: ⓘ

  [loaded] 42 tasks Apple

  [loading] 147 tasks Apple

  [operation] 90 tasks Apple

  [killed] 12 tasks Apple

  12 killed process lack of RAM

  Launch demons: ⓘ

  [loading] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-06-13) [Support]

  User launch officers: ⓘ

  [loading] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-03-01) [Support]

  Items in user login: ⓘ

  iTunesHelper Application (/ Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

  Application of activity monitor (/ Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app)

  Request for TransmitMenu (/ Applications/Transmit.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitMenu.app)

  Other applications: ⓘ

  [operation] 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword - osx-helper

  [ongoing] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.118112

  [ongoing] com.panic.Transmit.62432

  [ongoing] com.panic.Transmit.TransmitMenu.78112

  [ongoing] JP.co.Canon.cijscannerregister.68832

  [loading] 376 tasks Apple

  [operation] 202 tasks Apple

  [killed] 16 tasks Apple

  Plug-ins Internet: ⓘ

  FlashPlayer - 10.6: 22.0.0.192 - SDK 10.9 (2016-06-24), [Support]

  QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-05-21)

  Flash Player: 22.0.0.192 - SDK 10.9 (2016-06-24), [Support]

  EPPEX plugin: 10.0 (2015-04-10) [Support]

  Default browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-05-21)

  PepperFlashPlayer: 22.0.0.192 - SDK 10.6 (2016-06-24), [Support]

  iPhotoPhotocast: 7.0 - 10.8 SDK (2013-11-20)

  Safari extensions: ⓘ

  1Password - AgileBits - https://agilebits.com/onepassword (2016-05-21)

  Adblock more - Eyeo GmbH - https://adblockplus.org/ (2016-03-25)

  AdBlock - BetaFish, Inc. - https://getadblock.com (2016-05-21)

  3rd party preference panes: ⓘ

  Flash Player (2016-06-13) [Support]

  Time Machine: ⓘ

  Skip system files: No.

  Mobile backups: OFF

  Automatic backup: YES

  Volumes to back up:

  iMac HD: disc size: 999,35 GB disc used: 610,86 GB

  Destinations:

  LaCie BU iMac [Local]

  Total size: 599,86 GB

  Total number of backups: 36

  An older backup: 04/04/16-17:04

  Last backup: 24/06/16 11:15

  Backup disk size: too small

  599,86 GB backup size < (disc 610,86 GB X 3)

  Data 2 TB [network]

  Total size: 2.00 TB

  Total number of backups: 145

  An older backup: 16/11/13-15:06

  Last backup: 29/06/16 12:30

  Size of backup drive: adequate

  Size of backup 2.00 TB > (disc 610,86 GB X 3)

  Top of page process CPU: ⓘ

  6% WindowServer

  Transmit and 5%

  hidd 1%

  1% kernel_task

  1% fontd

  Top of page process of memory: ⓘ

  1.93 GB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent (9)

  849 MB kernel_task

  Safari of 467 MB

  Cfprefsd (2) 115 MB

  Mds_stores 106 MB

  Virtual memory information: ⓘ

  1. 48 GB of RAM

  6.52 GB used RAM (1.38 GB being cached)

  54 MB used Swap

  Diagnostic information: ⓘ

  June 29, 2016, 14:20:15 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Dock_2016-06-29-142015_[redacted].crash

  /System/Library/CoreServices/dock.app/Contents/MacOS/dock

  26 June 2016, 17:34:04 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/PhotoStreamAgent_2016-06-26-173404_[redacted]. Crash

  com Apple.photostream - agent - /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app/Conte nts/MacOS/PhotoStreamAgent

  What I propose to do this is

  Stop

  Remove all external devices except the keyboard and mouse

  Restart in safe mode

  Try safe mode if your Mac does not end commissioning - Apple Support

  and test the system

  If the system seems to behave then restart normally and test devices external one

  If you check the integrity of your hard drive using disk utility and run diagnostics on your hardware

  Using Apple Hardware Test - Apple Support

• Why have I not 3 logos AOL in my menu bar? Slowing down of operations?

  Even with Mackeeper my Mac runs slower and slower. When I go to Firefox, AOL mail pop up three logos. This is not normal. He is slowing the machine? Help!

  What is all this?

   "application": {
     "name": "Firefox",
     "version": "18.0.1",
     "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0",
     "supportURL": "http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/18.0.1/Darwin/en-US/"
   },
   "modifiedPreferences": {
     "accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar": 0,
     "browser.cache.disk.capacity": 358400,
     "browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run": false,
     "browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max": false,
     "browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value": 358400,
     "browser.history_expire_days.mirror": 180,
     "browser.link.open_newwindow": 2,
     "browser.places.importDefaults": false,
     "browser.places.updateRecentTagsUri": false,
     "browser.places.importBookmarksHTML": false,
     "browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion": 4,
     "browser.places.leftPaneFolderId": -1,
     "browser.places.migratePostDataAnnotations": false,
     "browser.search.useDBForOrder": true,
     "browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand": false,
     "browser.startup.homepage": "http://mail.aol.com/mail",
     "browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID": "20130116073211",
     "browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone": "18.0.1",
     "browser.tabs.warnOnClose": false,
     "extensions.lastAppVersion": "18.0.1",
     "font.name.serif.x-western": "Palatino",
     "font.size.variable.x-western": 18,
     "gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa": 4,
     "keyword.URL": "http://search.conduit.com/ResultsExt.aspx?ctid=CT3209604&SearchSource=2&q=",
     "network.cookie.prefsMigrated": true,
     "network.protocol-handler.warn-external.dnupdate": false,
     "places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages": 46977,
     "places.last_vacuum": 1356327667,
     "places.database.lastMaintenance": 1369435114,
     "print.print_margin_top": "0.5",
     "print.print_paper_width": "  8.50",
     "print.print_to_file": false,
     "print.print_bgimages": false,
     "print.print_margin_left": "0.5",
     "print.print_orientation": 0,
     "print.print_in_color": true,
     "print.print_paper_height": " 11.00",
     "print.print_pagedelay": 500,
     "print.print_paper_size": 0,
     "print.print_unwriteable_margin_right": 25,
     "print.print_printer": "",
     "print.print_command": "",
     "print.print_downloadfonts": false,
     "print.print_scaling": "  1.00",
     "print.print_unwriteable_margin_left": 25,
     "print.print_evenpages": true,
     "print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom": 56,
     "print.print_paper_size_unit": 0,
     "print.print_margin_right": "0.5",
     "print.print_oddpages": true,
     "print.print_bgcolor": false,
     "print.macosx.pagesetup-2": "",
  

  As to if it slows down your Firefox or your entire system, I cannot say, but some add-ons can connect to the internet in the background, for example, to check for mail or retrieve news/weather/etc. The best way to judge if the extension's bad performance is to use Firefox without it for awhile.

  The news that you pasted in your post usually comes in the DETAILS of the SYSTEM link OVER to the right of the question. Not sure what was wrong here.

  Last but not least, the forum software detected your Firefox in version 18. Is this correct?

  Version 18 is not safe; Mozilla reveals security flaws after each new version. Is something holding you upgrade to Firefox 21? Please let us know if we can offer you solutions or workarounds.

  If help > about Firefox shows 21.0 Firefox, you may need to disable the preference that is misrepresentation of your version number. See: sites say that Firefox is obsolete or incompatible, even if it's the latest version.

• Backups Time Machine very slow on 2015 MacBook Air

  Associated with a topic of discussion between a few days ago (two MacBooks, 10.11.4, a fast Time Machine backup and a very slow), I start a new topic with new information that seem to show it is a problem more general and not related to Time Machine networks.

  Here's the situation:

  • A 2015 MacBook Air, 10.11.4, 8 GB / 512 GB, has extremely slow performance of backup Time Machine, taking 40 hours for the first 300 GB backup and incremental backups for a long time as well
  • TM performance is essentially the same whether on the network (wired Ethernet) or a USB3 external disk
  • When you back up to disk USB3, I confirmed that the information system shows that the port is configured as USB3, not USB2 (nothing else is plugged into the USB port)
  • Tests of bandwidth I/O gross (using dd and iperf) show no problem; the network reached 110 MB/s bandwidth, written network managed at 50 Mbps, external USB3 HD written work at 40-50 MB/s (write hard drive speed limit)
  • 3 other Macs of various ages from 2009-2014 on the same network have no problem at all do backups Time Machine Network; a backup complete first on a 2011 MacBook Pro 500 GB takes 5 hours or more than 10 x faster than the MBA problem
  • Time machine network uses a Linux server running the latest Debian and Netatalk 3.1.8 and the connection is via a USB3/Gigabit adapter, no WiFi, and iperf tests with this arrangement shows 900 MB/s of throughput of the server.  In all cases, the Time Machine and external time Machine Network USB HD have the same symptoms.
  • The problem with MacBook Air is configured the same as the MacBook Pro 2011, which she replaced "daily driver", possible
  • This problem was shown by the MBA since his unboxing conversion, taking 20 hours for his first backup once Setup initially.  Incremental backups now take several hours, leading to interrupted incremental backups and, I believe, databases corrupted backup triggers new full backups that take today the 40 hours.

  Using Terminal Server and iostat, Console, etc, I see that there is significant activity e/s for the backup drive on the order of 20 to 40 MB/s for long periods on the MBA during the TM backup, but during that time the average declared backup size as shown in the window in the console and TM is growing by only 5 GB/hour.  This occur even if the backup will the external drive or a network drive. This seems to mean that the I/O bandwidth to and from the disk hard external, only 1/600 contributes to the progress of the backup.  I am sure that there is overload of certain checks and other tasks, but not to a 600-to-1 ratio.

  I tried to disable the limitation of the I/O of low priority as shown here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/212537/time-machine-ridiculously-slow-a close-el-capitan-upgrade, that helps a bit (maybe 20-30%), but not by a factor of 10 for others.

  I have gone through a number of the Time Machine of Pondini troubleshooting steps, but he found nothing corresponding to these symptoms.

  The only thing I can conclude is that Time Machine, the application or configuration, on this specific MBA, is down. (A single thought that I wrote this to the top that I have not tried: the MBA and the time MBP running VMware Fusion and have a file of 50 + GB VM; on the MBA that is not excluded from TM backups while on the MBP is)

  Does anyone have advice on what to watch next?  In all cases, only one key would be why it seems that only 0.16% of all the bandwidth I/O to the backup drive seems to be actual data backup.

  Once again, three other Macs, all running the same 10.11.4, back to the Time Machine Server perfectly and have for years.  Only this new MBA glue as broken out, either to a network drive or an external hard drive USB3.

  (A single thought that I wrote this to the top that I have not tried: the MBA and the time MBP running VMware Fusion and have a file of 50 + GB VM; on the MBA that is not excluded from TM backups while on the MBP is)

  What happens when you exclude it as the MBP?