After I installed Lion, my Macbook Pro slowed to a crawl.  I spent a good majority of my time watching icons bounce endlessly in the Dock, forcing frozen application to quit and cursing the constant appearance of the “beach ball of death.”

For a moment, I feared that I would have to reinstall Lion or worse yet, downgrade to Snow Leopard.  But I decided to try on thing first – repair my Hard Drive and Permissions.  Even though there were no errors found after running the hard drive repair utility, doing so fixed all of my problems.  In fact, I would say that Lion now runs faster than Snow Leopard did.

What to do:

1. Restart your computer and hold down the Command-R keystroke combination during the process (you can also hold down the Option key and then click Recover).
2. From the OS X Utilities menu, choose “Disk Utility”
3. Select the drive you want to repair in the left pane.
4. Click Repair Disk.
5. When Repair Disk is finished, click the Repair Disk Permissions button.
6. When Repair Disk Permissions is finished, click the Apple on the menu and then choose Restart.

Hopefully, your Lion install will now be roaring instead of mewing.

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