Look for the Power User package menu item. Go to the EtreCheckPro menu at the top of the screen, next to the Apple menu. If you have purchased the Power User package for EtreCheck in the Mac App Store, you are entitled to a free upgrade to the Power User package in EtreCheckPro. If you have been using EtreCheck for free, you can just delete EtreCheck using the LaunchPad and download EtreCheckPro. How to upgrade to EtreCheckPro EtreCheckPro is a free app, just like EtreCheck in the Mac App Store. Therefore, these features are only available in EtreCheckPro. But if you want to know what’s going on with your Mac, this is one of the best tools out there for the job.The Mac App Store has technical limitations that prevent these features from working in EtreCheck downloaded from the Mac App Store.

If any of your hardware is broken, that will also be pointed out.Īgain, Etrecheck can’t fix your computer-outside of removing malware, all it offers is information. If your Mac has malware, the malware will be pointed out, and the program can even delete it directly. If your computer is running an daemons or applications that Etrecheck doesn’t recognize, those will be pointed out. Keep scrolling and you’ll see all sorts of information. That’s not a huge problem, but it’s probably best for me to clean this and a few other broken daemons. In the above case, the problem was a program I installed a few years ago trying and failing to launch a daemon. For this reason, Etrecheck puts a clickable “Support” button beside nearly every line in the report.Ĭlicking this will run a web search for the problem in question. You’re not going to know what a lot of the information in this report means, even if you’re a fairly advanced Mac user. As you can see, I can also read the complete SMART report for my hard drives from here. I should probably free up some space on my Mac. This isn’t causing me any problems right now, but it could if I let things get much worse. For example, the screenshot below shows that my boot drive is getting pretty close to full. Pay attention to these lines, because Etrecheck uses red text to point out potential problems.

Click this to see a plain language explanation of what information the section offers.Īs you read the report, you’ll notice some text is red. Every section has a bolded header, beside which you’ll see an information icon. Scroll down and you’ll start seeing the actual reports. It starts with a full summary of your computer, complete with official Apple links to the technical specifications, user guide, and warranty information for your exact model. The report does a great job of explaining itself. You’ll hear a notification sound when the report is complete, and be presented with the following window. The entire scan will take a few minutes, so go ahead and clean the dishes or something. Then, it will look over your software, one app at a time:

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