Comments on: Improving Leopard’s Startup http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Saul http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup#comment-29699 Saul Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:43:37 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/11/07/improving-leopards-startup/#comment-29699 Hi Bruce: Thank you for your answer. This is a short update, since you wanted to know if and what I found out. I guess I wanted "the easy way" which was just asking you about. I have not done any research yet, (I am pretty busy trying to put off more urgent fires). And regarding your comments about the VM's. I tried at the beginning and installed Boot Camp, but did not like the fact that had to choose between OS's. Then I tried Fussion (was cheaper and much more recommended after doing a vast research), but crashed a lot. Then I gave a shot to Parallels and, as my marriage, it may not be perfect, but it's working. :-) If and when I will find anything new I will willingly update you. Take care. Saul Hi Bruce:
Thank you for your answer.
This is a short update, since you wanted to know if and what I found out.
I guess I wanted “the easy way” which was just asking you about. I have not done any research yet, (I am pretty busy trying to put off more urgent fires).
And regarding your comments about the VM’s. I tried at the beginning and installed Boot Camp, but did not like the fact that had to choose between OS’s. Then I tried Fussion (was cheaper and much more recommended after doing a vast research), but crashed a lot. Then I gave a shot to Parallels and, as my marriage, it may not be perfect, but it’s working. :-)
If and when I will find anything new I will willingly update you.
Take care. Saul

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup#comment-29497 Bruce Keener Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:56:08 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/11/07/improving-leopards-startup/#comment-29497 Saul, Excellent question, for which I unfortunately do not have a for-sure answer. I use XP via VMware Fusion, instead of Parallels, and have it set up so that it uses the Bootcamp partition that I installed before I bought VMware Fusion. In my case, OSX sees my XP partition as a separate drive, so I do not think it cares what is on it, as far as its startup and normal operation goes (it only "cares" when I access it with VMware Fusion ... I think). Since you are running Parallels without using a Bootcamp partition, it could well be that OSX "sees" of its folders during startup, so that clutter in the folders <strong>might (possibly)</strong> impact OSX performance. I personally doubt that this is the case, as surely the Parallels folks have found ways to optimize how Parallels impacts OSX and vice versa. But, you raise a good point. Unfortunately, I do not know the answer, not having used Parallels before myself. Hence, my suggestion is to pose a question about this in Parallel's support forums. I hate to tell you to do some more research on your own on this, because I would really like to offer direct help ... but I simply do not know the answer. Best wishes on it. If you do find the answer, I would appreciate you stopping back by and letting us know so that others can learn from what you find out. Thanks for the comment! Saul,

Excellent question, for which I unfortunately do not have a for-sure answer. I use XP via VMware Fusion, instead of Parallels, and have it set up so that it uses the Bootcamp partition that I installed before I bought VMware Fusion.

In my case, OSX sees my XP partition as a separate drive, so I do not think it cares what is on it, as far as its startup and normal operation goes (it only “cares” when I access it with VMware Fusion … I think).

Since you are running Parallels without using a Bootcamp partition, it could well be that OSX “sees” of its folders during startup, so that clutter in the folders might (possibly) impact OSX performance. I personally doubt that this is the case, as surely the Parallels folks have found ways to optimize how Parallels impacts OSX and vice versa. But, you raise a good point. Unfortunately, I do not know the answer, not having used Parallels before myself.

Hence, my suggestion is to pose a question about this in Parallel’s support forums. I hate to tell you to do some more research on your own on this, because I would really like to offer direct help … but I simply do not know the answer.

Best wishes on it. If you do find the answer, I would appreciate you stopping back by and letting us know so that others can learn from what you find out.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Saul http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup#comment-29495 Saul Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:14:56 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/11/07/improving-leopards-startup/#comment-29495 Thank you Bruce for your advice. I cleaned up a lot of what I was sure I can. I use Windows XP with Parallels and I am left with two folders: "Parallels" which I think it is needed (maybe I can move it to a different folder, not under "Documents?) and "Recycler" which I am not sure if it is needed or not and with some files that have something to do with Parallels because they have the P icon with the ext. "chm, exe and ini", some dll's and one ".ocx". Is there a way I can check if and what can be erased/moved safely without compromising my MBP performance (which, touch wood is acceptable until now)? Thanks in advance for your time. Saul Thank you Bruce for your advice.
I cleaned up a lot of what I was sure I can.
I use Windows XP with Parallels and I am left with two folders: “Parallels” which I think it is needed (maybe I can move it to a different folder, not under “Documents?) and “Recycler” which I am not sure if it is needed or not and with some files that have something to do with Parallels because they have the P icon with the ext. “chm, exe and ini”, some dll’s and one “.ocx”.
Is there a way I can check if and what can be erased/moved safely without compromising my MBP performance (which, touch wood is acceptable until now)?
Thanks in advance for your time. Saul

]]> By: Bruce http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup#comment-21368 Bruce Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/11/07/improving-leopards-startup/#comment-21368 Marc: a Great Tip. Turns out Missing Sync had an app in the startup section, too. So did ChronoSync. Even though I do not think the latter is problematic, I removed both. Seems to have led to further improvements. Still not as quick as Tiger was, but it is much better than after the upgrade. Thanks for stopping by and helping out! Marc: a Great Tip. Turns out Missing Sync had an app in the startup section, too. So did ChronoSync. Even though I do not think the latter is problematic, I removed both. Seems to have led to further improvements. Still not as quick as Tiger was, but it is much better than after the upgrade.

Thanks for stopping by and helping out!

]]> By: Marc Orchant http://www.keenerliving.com/improving-leopards-startup#comment-21341 Marc Orchant Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:52:08 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/11/07/improving-leopards-startup/#comment-21341 Bruce: also check your Login items list in the Accounts pane in System Preferences and make sure you don't have applications set to start up on login that either don't want or need to auto-run. Bruce: also check your Login items list in the Accounts pane in System Preferences and make sure you don’t have applications set to start up on login that either don’t want or need to auto-run.

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