The Mac Geek Cab Premium, Number 332, it's all for you, for May 19th, 2011. Oh, uh, Go ratings folks and happy Thursday.

here in Durham, New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton.

Here in Fearful, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

I don't think we need to tell him how we do the show.

I'm pretty sure that...

Or why we do the show.

That's right. But we do like answering your questions.

What we do we do all for you. That's right. Yes, you.

So we got an email from John, not you of course John, but listener John, writing,

I was listening to Mac Geek have 3.30 and heard John Braun say something near the end of the show about the Mac App Store being really

slow to start up. I too had this issue. It was so bad that I avoided opening it at all unless

I had time to simply walk away from the machine.

There's a solution, but it might not be one that is advisable to take.

I found this secret out in the Apple Forum,

so I can't take any credit for it.

I found another link about the same solution.

The solution is this, if you open Key Chain Access, choose preferences from the Key Chain

menu, click the Certificates tab. You can turn off certificate revocation list. You set

that to off and that should solve your App Store Lockup issue or pause issue. For me, it dramatically improved the performance on my machine.

So this is interesting, John, because on any machine that is set to defaults, of course, this

particular setting is off.

And so John is curious if there's a risk here,

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