Most of those cleaning programs are junk, especially MacKeeper.

Keeping Software Updated and run a web browser check to make sure the plug-ins are current.įor Safari and Flash, this check is more accurate There are certain cases where's it's needed to free up a large spaces on the drive, but not something everyone has to do.įar as other Mac maintainence, there really isn't any except to backup one's files regularly. Mac's don't need defragging as OS X automatically writes 2Gb or below sized files to one contiguous space on the drive.