As you use your Mac more often, it is always good to consider cleaning up Mac system too. Doing this will free some hard disk space, speed up the system and even protect your important files and folders.

So start cleaning your Mac by doing the following:

Free some hard disk space: One of the positive things that you can do is free some disk space whether you are using an 80 gig drive. You can remove unnecessary applications and files that only taking up your Mac space.

Delete some Files: This is one of the quickest ways if you want to clean your Mac hard drive. Start with the largest files that are stored in the Mac system. You can even use other utilities that will help you determine all the files that are stored in the hard disk and which of these is taking most of the disk space.

Upgrade you Mac OS: You ca change your Mac to Snow Leopard version because this consume lesser space compared to other Mac versions.

Slim down your Mac and optimize: You can choose from a variety of Mac applications that can compresses other existing applications and remove the other unnecessary files. You can use the Xslimmer that will compress files, CleanMyMac or MacKeeper that offers all around solution for maintaining the Mac and Cocktail that removes files that are eating up your disk space.

Delete old Applications: Look for old applications that are stored in the Mac system and better remove it to trash. This will free some larger space, even reduce hard disk clutter and might improve the Mac performance. But before you drag and drop applications to trash better use third party applications such as AppZapper, AppDelete or MacKeeper to completely remove the applications and all its associated files without leaving any trace behind.

Speed up Mac: There are a lot of ways that you do about it. Formatting the hard drive and re-installing the Mac OS is quite not recommended and instead do this:

A daily routine of cleaning Mac and its hard drive can do a lot not only to speed up its performance but also to prevent clutter drive and reclaim hard disk space. You can a lot to perform some cleaning procedures to your Mac from deleting old and unnecessary files to using third party applications that will compress your files and even remove applications out of the system completely and doing these tasks will greatly keep the Mac system running on god condition.