It wouldn't hurt to go to the Mac App Store Purchases tab and download the full installer of El Capitan and install it. Looking back over your description, it sounds like you can't boot to the Recovery HD, and you should be able to. This is to check for any other hardware problem that you might possibly have.
Remove the adware and the utorrent login item and see if you can start up normally.Īnd if you can, boot holding down "D" to run the Apple Hardware Test. Someone else might see something else here, but I think the adware and the utorrent login item may be the main issue. There is a demo you can download and run several times for free. The only other thing I can think to check is the health of the hard drive, always a possibility if the computer is slow and the drive is more than 3 years old. So you might want to think about a new battery at some point. The biggest danger is that a battery can swell and exert pressure on the trackpad and even break it. That's probably not relevant to your problems, but you want to keep an eye on it. That may have installed the utorrent as a login item and also the adware.
Personally I'm not familiar with torrent sites but I have the impression they can mess up your computer if you visit them. >System Preferences>Users & Groups>Login Items. I also see "utorrent" as a user login item and that might be something to remove and see if you can start up normally. I believe that these can cause a lot of mischief. I'm not an expert in this sort of thing, but looking at the stuff in red letters it looks like you've picked up some adware somewhere and it would be a good idea to remove that for starters. (/Applications/handyPrint.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/handyPrintUserDaemon. (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app) OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 (15F34) - Time since boot: about 5 days ġ 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-2640M) CPU: 2-coreīluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supportedīattery: Health = Check Battery - Cycle count = 378 Ĭlick the links for help with non-Apple products.Ĭlick the links for more information about that line.Ĭlick the links to remove adware. I've run Etrecheck for a slow computer and this is the report while in safe boot.
I have macbook pro 13" 2011 model, i7 with 8GB ram.
I don't know if this is relevant but I've noticed that I'm prompted for a password prior to the computer booting. Watchdogd: main) - cannot initialize the watchdog service I've used console to see if I can notice any problems and there was only one thing. starting in diagnostics doesn't work either. I've run disk utility so many times and there is nothing wrong with the drive. I have been having this problem for last the last 2 months and it just won't go away no matter what I try, SMC, NVRAM reset. Safe mode and single user mode is my safest bet to getting anything done. I've tried to make it to recovery and there it's the same problem where it's extremely slow and I can't seem to get anything fixed or done. I can't do anything without having to wait for it, and thats frustrating since I know this a super powerful Mac.
The computer also tends to have the flicker in certain programs, such as launching launchpad, open certain apps (whatsapp), but the biggest frustration is the lag.
When I did get it to boot normally it would have the CPU run 900% for something to do with the kernel. If in normal user mode I can wait hours for it to hopefully actually make it to the log in screen. It takes several times to get into safe boot since it loads for so long. Basically when I start up my macbook I have to put it into safe boot otherwise I can't use the macbook at all. Hey, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me out with my macbook pro.