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How To Check App Usage On Macbook Air
How To Check App Usage On Macbook

How To Check App Usage On Macbook Air

If you want to check a Macs disk space and disk usage, this is one of the simplest ways to do so: From anywhere in Mac OS, choose the  Apple menu item and select “About This Mac” At the general ‘About This Mac window’, click on the “Storage” tab (or if you’re running an earlier Mac OS X version, click on “More Info” button). Click on the Apple logo in your Mac's menu bar, open System Preferences, click on 'Users & Groups', click on your account and click 'Login Items'. Scroll down and check that SurplusMeterAgent is in. The first is called Monit, and once added to Notification Center it offers a means of quickly seeing an overview of CPU activity, memory usage, disk activity, battery, and network activity. You can then click on any of the little activity icons to get further information about each. Get Monit from the Mac App Store here.

How To Check App Usage On Macbook

When your system is acting sluggish or simply not responding, an app or process may be the source of the problem. You can use Activity Monitor to locate the troublesome app or process and force it to quit.

See how much energy your Mac is using

You can find out how much energy your Mac is using, and see which apps or processes are using the most energy.

See real-time CPU, network, or disk status in the Dock

It’s easy to keep an eye on your system status without even looking at the Activity Monitor window—you can monitor your CPU, network, or disk usage as a live graph right in the Dock.

To browse the Activity Monitor User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.