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Hey guys. I'm immensely enjoying OSX 10.10 Yosemite on my Mac but I would like to know is there a way or some tweaks to boost its performance? 

As in the case of any other device, if you want to have your Mac in perfect operating order, you must take proper care of it. In this article, we will present various useful tips that will enhance your experience and ensure that you can take advantage of the best your Mac can offer. In order to perform most of these adjustments, you should be able to access System Preferences. You can do it by clicking on the Apple logo at the top left corner of the screen and selecting System Preferences.

Adjust the settings of Energy Saver

By performing these adjustments you will recover some system resources and make sure that your computer does not go to sleep or standby mode which might have negative effect on your system's performance. Just follow these instructions:

1. Go to System preferences and select Energy Saver.
2. Depending on your computer model, do the following:
* Set the Computer sleep slider to Never.
* In other case, check the box “Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.”
* Untick the checkbox “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.”

Disable Wi-Fi

If you are not using it, your Mac will work better off, if you disable it for the time being. Doing it is easy:

1. Go to System Preferences and select Network.
2. Click on Wi-Fi on the left hand sidebar.
3. Click on the button saying Turn Wi-Fi Off.

Turn off FireWire Networking

By doing this, you can free up some bandwidth in firewire bus and thus to boost FireWire's performance. Do the following:

1. Go to System Preferences and select Network.
2. On the left sidebar, select FireWire/Built-In FireWire/Thunderbolt FireWire.
3. Choose the drop-down menu for “Configure IPv4″ and select Off.
4. Press Apply and restart your Mac.

Turn off FileVault Protection

If you optimize your computer with this tweak, it will allow your hard drive to work more efficiently and prevent the occurrence of DAE Error -9035 (Pro Tools).

1. Go to System preferences and select Security & Privacy.
2. Choose FileVault tab.
3. Find the line “FileVault protection is (on/off) for the hard disk…” and turn it off.

Turn off Automatic Updates

You can successfully disable Automatic Updates. If you need some update, you can update your Mac manually by clicking on the Apple menu and selecting Software Update option.

1. Go to System Preferences and select App Store.
2. Uncheck the box called “Automatically check for updates”.

Turn off App Nap

While sometimes App Nap is a handy application, you should keep in mind that App Nap treats every hidden app as 'idle' and might disable them which may have some negative effect on your system's performance. This may happen because it can disable some apps which are running in the background. Therefore, you should disable it.

1. Open Applications folder.
2. Select the App for which you want to turn off the App Nap.
3. Right-click the app and select Get Info.
4. Under General in the Info window you will find the option to disable the App Nap.

Turn on Spotlight Indexing (Pro Tools)

Make sure that nothing is hidden from Spotlight as it indexes Workbase database search operations. Therefore, it should access all drives.

1. Go to System Preferences and select Spotlight.
2. Select the Privacy tab.
3. There should be no drive on the list.
4. If you find any, highlight every one of them and click the minus (-) button below to remove it.

Turn off Sudden Motion Sensor (only for laptops)

If you are in the middle of some processes or work and Sudden Motion Sensor is turned on, it will temporarily stop the hard drive from spinning in order to protect your computer against the damage if it is suddenly moved.
1. Double-click the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop.
2. Open Applications folder and then Utilities folder in it.
3. Double-click on the Terminal.
4. Type sudo pmset -a sms 0 and click Return (if you type 0, it will disable it)
5. Provide your administrator where it is needed.
6. Type  sudo pmset -g in order to check whether it has been applied.

If you want to enable it again, do the following

1. Type  sudo pmset -a sms 1 and click Return (typing in ‘1’ will enable it again).
2. Provide your administrator where it is needed.
3. Type sudo pmset -g in order to check whether it has been applied.

Here you go! We hope that you have found these tips useful and your Mac is now in perfect operating order. You can also optimize your system by using a high-quality system optimizer like [rev id=”MacKeeper”] or [rev id=”MacBooster”].