MacBook Pro speed

[Terry Everall]

Can anyone recommend the best free download to speed up and clean my 4 year old Mac ( might even be 5 years old). It is slow booting up and seems to be slower in general

[Kingster]

Not sure how easy it is or even if it's possible but swap the hard drive for an SSD (solid state drive) and do a clean install of the OS and it will seem like it's on crack!

[Terry Everall]

Sounds way beyond my very limited IT knowledge and ability

[Rhett Turner - Black Country AO]

I replaced my old white MacBook with a new MacBook Pro a couple of years ago because the old one was getting rather slow. Once I got the new one working I did as Chris has suggested and found the old MacBook transformed. 

 

If you can't stretch to a HD change then it may still be worth doing a reinstall, do a search on reinstall MacBook Pro for instructions  

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

I thought MACs never went wrong and were superior to everything else - LOL

[shrops-paul]

I use ccleaner on my PC. Might be a Mac version. Cleans loads of crap off your system. 

[Lawrie]

58 minutes ago, shrops-paul said:

...... Cleans loads of crap off your system. 

The Bill Gates puts it all back on again

[Terry Everall]

I tried ccleaner for mac but they want about £125 to complete the screen and clean pa

[shrops-paul]

I just use the free version. Gets rid of temporary files and cleans up the registry etc. 

[Blatman]

Hey Terry, here's a thought experiment. How many questions about Westfields do you think get posted to the Mac forums? 

I use this site quite a bit. Always good advice:

https://www.howtogeek.com/228180/10-quick-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-mac/