How to Update and Clean Up Your Mac1. Update Important Software and Browsers

Update Microsoft Office1. Open Word, Powerpoint, or Excel2. From the top tool bar, choose “Help” and then “Check for Updates”3. Install all updates, when asked for a password, enter your Active Directory password 4. This will update all of your Microsoft products

Update Apple Software1. Click on the black apple in the upper-left corner, and then on “Software Update”2. This will take you to the APP Store...

DO NOT UPGRADE to Yosemite!!3. Update all available programs and security notices4. If you are asked for a password with the username “ashcpss@hcpss.org”, use this password: Hcpss2014

Update Firefox Browser1. Open Firefox and click on “About Firefox”2. If the next box says there is an update available

the easiest way to install is to go to www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox and download the latest version. Follow the install instructions, and when asked if you want to replace the older item, click “replace”

Update Chrome Browser1. Open Chrome and click on the settings menu in the top right (three lines), then

choose “About Google Chrome”2. If it does not say “Google Chrome is up to date” with a green check, then go to:

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ and download the latest version. Follow the install instructions, and when asked if you want to replace the older item, click “replace”

2. Clear Cache and Browsing Data

Clear Browsing Data from Firefox

1. Open Firefox and click on “Firefox” and then “Preferences”2. Open the Privacy tab3. You should keep you settings for private browsing as shown below. Firefox

will clear your browsing data each time it closes (saved passwords will be preserved) if your settings match these

4. If not, click on “Clear all current History” and then “Clear now”

Clear Browsing Data from Chrome

1. Open Chrome and click on the settings menu in the top right (three lines), then choose “History”

2. Click on “Clear browsing data…” and then “Clear browsing data” again

Clear Cache from MacBook

Cache should be deleted from three different locations on the hard drive: 1. Macintosh HD > Library > Cache 2. Macintosh HD > System > Library > Cache 3. Your User Folder 1. Open Finder, click on Macintosh HD, and navigate to the cahe folder in the library. Delete everything in the cache folder. (Hint: if you select the first file, then hold down the shift key and select the bottom file, all files inbetween will be highlited). Right-click the files and “move to trash”

2. Open Finder, click on Macintosh HD, and navigate to the cahe folder in the library of the Sytem folder. Delete everything in the cache folder.

3. Open Finder, click on Your User Folder and navigate to the cahe folder in the library folder. Delete everything in the cache folder.

4. Empty the trash can. When messages such as the one below pop up, click continue (there will be multiple of these) When all of the trash that can be emptied is….restart your computer and empty the trash again. The rest of the cache files will then be removed :-)