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10 tips to optimize the speed of the Mac machine 1. Use A Wired Mouse & Keyboard: Though a wireless/bluetooth mouse is cool, but using bluetooth means it can left behind. When you are low on battery it makes you work slower because you have to move the mouse more same is with the keyboard. 2. Clear Caches: A Mac machine runs on caches. After long period a cache becomes corrupt or full of erroneous data. Removing it will speed up your computer. To know more about deleting cache, visit this link . 3. Check Your Processor Performance Setting: There is an option to change how fast you processors run to save power, it is under System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options. If your Mac is slow, you can try this option to increase the speed and get maxium out of your Mac, but this will use more energy and reduce battery time on laptops. 4. Turn Off File Vault: This is meant to encrypt the data of the hard drive, but by turning it on, your computer has to work harder to decrypt the

Entourage Crashing and closing automatically Sometimes it might happen that as soon as you launch Entourages it closes down and not allows you to work. This might happen due to permissions and can be fixed by rebuilding the Entourage database. Here is the process to repair it, you need to rebuild the database: Rebuild Database process (with images) SHORTCUT TO LAUNCH REBUILD DATABASE: Hold the Option key while launching Entourage. a. The other option to rebuild the database is to first close all the Microsoft applications. b. Launch Applications (Command+shift+A). c. Go to 'Microsoft Office 2004' then 'Office' and then open ' Database Utility '. d. Select Rebuild Database & click on Continue. e. If there is any MS office program running, it will give you a prompt to close it down. f. Once the rebuild process is complete, click on Done. g. Entourage will bring you back to the same window, this time click on Quit. Once this process is complete relaunch Entour