Loopylou99000 wrote:
My Macbook Pro is ridiculously slow. I use CleanMyMac and that says there's heavy memory usage constantly. I do not run more than one application at a time if I can help it, I've cleaned all caches, and it's still slow. I cannot think what else to do.
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/Anti-Virus/VPN
all known to cause issue in the macOS
your " CleanMyMac" is one of the worst. Excellent marketing campaign, strong wallet vac— but not advised.
After you run the uninstaller—
You get a good look at your System config. and reveal conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com
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