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Upgrade the memory of your 2020 iMac up to 128GB

Optimizing your Mac: Turn Off Unused Services

2010-03-07 updated 2010-03-07 - Send Feedback
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Turning off some of these items also increases security, by eliminating potential access to your Mac:

Universal Access
Speech Recognition
Bluetooth
File sharing
Web sharing
Any other sharing service;
AirPort.
Logged-in users other than yourself.

Most of these are found in the System Preferences panel.

Turn off unused services

Other user accounts

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