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How To: Make Your Login Speed Faster

Does your computer take forever to load up? Well I have two easy tips that will make you login into your Mac faster. The first way is to make sure that you do not have any applications open automatically at login. You can check this by going into “System Preferences,” then go to accounts, and click on the “Login Items” button. To stop your apps from opening at login you have to select each one and click the minus button on the bottom. Note that just clicking the box on the side does not stop it from opening at login, but it hides it at login, and that does not affect the speed of login. Another way to make your Mac’s login speed faster is to make sure that you do not have any servers, external hardrives, or memory sticks connected to you computer because it will have to load those at login. It’s as easy as that to make your login speed faster.

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How To: Customize Your Mac Login Screen

Are you the kind of person who likes to customize every inch of your computer, but can’t find out how to customize your login screen? Well I found an application called Ravissant. It allows you to easily customize your login screen with your own personal pictures and texts. After you download the application and open it all you have todo is customize it to your standards. Todo that you click what you want to customize on the top menu bar where you can choose from logos to backgrounds. To put in you own personal texts just click on “OS Text” or “Welcome Text” and an area will be boxed to where your writing will go. Now for your background and logo you select which one you want to change and just drag a picture to the boxed area. This is fun and very easy todo.

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