If your Mac has been sluggish lately, it can be hard to figure out the cause. Here are 13 potential reasons and fixes to improve your Mac's speed.

You can easily stop programs from running at startup on your Mac computer using your System Preferences.

Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a ...

It’s happened to you, probably many times over the years: you’re using Safari, and it starts to feel like molasses. You’re working among several apps, and you start to have to wait for seconds or ...

A slow hard drive can make routine tasks, such as storing and transferring files, unbearably frustrating. Running Windows or any other operating system from a slow hard drive can make matters even ...

If you notice slowness, having Task Manager open to the details page can help diagnose the issue. If you see the CPU or memory or disk columns at 100 percent, that means some app or process is hogging ...