Please recomend a good utility/check up program for Yosemite

[VideoBeagle]

I have a friend low on the techie scale, and he'd like a utility program..that checks stuff out, cleans stuff..fixes small errors, "speeds up the mac"..that kind of thing.

Like I said, he's low techie, so Onyx really isn't the thing (he does have it)....something with more hand holding.

Can anyone recommend something that's good?

 

[Toutou]

Tell him not to fix it if it ain't broke

 

[jbarley]

I have a friend low on the techie scale, and he'd like a utility program..that checks stuff out, cleans stuff..fixes small errors, "speeds up the mac"..that kind of thing.

Like I said, he's low techie, so Onyx really isn't the thing (he does have it)....something with more hand holding.

Can anyone recommend something that's good?

EtreCheck is a good place to start, it supplies a lot of information and can point you in the right direction.

 

[VideoBeagle]

Tell him not to fix it if it ain't broke

Thnks.that's not so helpful

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Tell him to avoid MacKeeper and CleanMyMac like the plague!

I use only one application of that kind (when I am lazy to clean manually): Disk Doctor (https://fiplab.com/apps/disk-doctor-for-mac), but Macs don't really need such software.

 

[VideoBeagle]

What's wrong with Clean My Mac?

 

[Ulenspiegel]

What's wrong with Clean My Mac?

Food for thoughts:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cleanmymac.689232/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cleanmymac-cleaned-too-much.709930/

 

[bhtwo]

Prob best not to use anything... these macs look after themselves.

Maybe admedic... just incase you're sucked into MacKeeper.

 

[VideoBeagle]

Prob best not to use anything... these macs look after themselves.

Maybe admedic... just incase you're sucked into MacKeeper.

This isn't helpful. At all. In case you didn't read the whole original post, I have a non-techie friend who wants a program for computer maintenance. Whether or not a mac can or can not "look after themselves" is not an issue. My friend came to me, I came to the forum.

I thank those who responded with recommendations and information.

 

[bhtwo]

Don't get huffy... all I'm saying is he doesn't need one.

 

[VideoBeagle]

Food for thoughts:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cleanmymac.689232/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cleanmymac-cleaned-too-much.709930/

Huh..very interesting. I've used CMM for I guess a couple of years and never had any problems..but I've never used it's "system cleanup" just it's empty trash and find large files feature, and uninstaller. But certainly good to know this info.

 

[Toltepeceno]

Tell him to avoid MacKeeper and CleanMyMac like the plague!

I use only one application of that kind (when I am lazy to clean manually): Disk Doctor (https://fiplab.com/apps/disk-doctor-for-mac), but Macs don't really need such software.

I use disk doctor also to clean caches, logs and trash. Never a problem with it.

 

[VideoBeagle]

I use disk doctor also to clean caches, logs and trash. Never a problem with it.

Thanks for the rec!

 

[Toltepeceno]

Thanks for the rec!

No problem and it also seems to empty the trash when there are stuck items which happens regularly on osx, at least to me.

 

[xgman]

yosemite cache cleaner has been pretty good through the years.