Mac mini feel sluggish?

[Winter Charm]

Recently I've noticed that my mac mini seems to be slowing down. are they any good utilities for cleaning up a mac? I didnt expect this to be an issue, but maybe it's just me irresponsibly trying out a lot of mac software and not knowing how to totally remove it from the system, and other newbie mistakes like that

Names of utilities would be great, and of course, if there's anything free out there, I'd love to give it a shot.

Any other tips on increasing the performance of my mac?

 

[HE15MAN]

Free hard drive space helps a lot

 

[MacHamster68]

there are two apps i could recommend
first called app cleaner http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/appcleaner.htmlvery easy to use
second called ONYX http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html

increasing performance .....on a mini ....more ram ....ssd.......

 

[Winter Charm]

Free hard drive space helps a lot

I feel like this may definetly be a culprit. I have 90/320 GB free right now.

 

[Winter Charm]

there are two apps i could recommend
first called app cleaner http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/appcleaner.htmlvery easy to use
second called ONYX http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html

increasing performance .....on a mini ....more ram ....ssd.......

Thank you for both of those utilities They helped very much. If there's a mod out here, I would recommend starting a sticky of useful mac utilties/tools that apply to everyone because of how they affect system performance.

Also, I feel like 4GB of ram is plenty for me, I do some casual gaming on both Mac and Windows and some basic home video editing. Nothing too complicated.