San Leandro Macintosh User Group

10.3.2 Slow Boot Up - by Ed Matlock (01/18/04)

At the Jan. 15th meeting I showed how performing a simple modification reduced startup times dramatically. The information for the modification came from 3 articles published by MacFixIt, Macintouch, and Apple. These 3 articles have been reprinted below. On the school's iMac that I performed the mod on for the demo, the boot times went from 1 minute 45 seconds to 1 minute 7 seconds. This is quite a substantial time savings and is something an average person can accomplish. Download the PDF document.