That way, you'll have a better idea of which applications cause performance to degrade the most.
You can also use Activity Monitor (located in the Mac OS X Finder in Applications > Utilities) to see how much of your Mac's memory each application is using. Quit any applications that you aren't using. Quit applications and programs you aren't using: If you run a number of memory-consuming applications and programs simultaneously, Windows performance may become slow.If Windows performance seems slow, try the following: