Re: Help with my Mac
From: Larry Glazerman (l.glazerman@rcn.com)
Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:02:05 -0500
If I recall, there is a utility for the mac called startup manager or
something like that , that can check for startup conflicts. I'm not a mac
person anymore, my son is, but you may want to check that out.
At 08:20 AM 1/17/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Have you tried a virus scan? With latest updates?
>Sometimes a virus can get in there and slow things down from the memory
>its hogging.
>
>Also check to see if anything got loaded so it starts when it boots up.
>Some customers of mine I've seen had about 30 things load on startup,
>and then they wonder why their Athalon 700 runs like a 486.....Because
>every program they installed either put itself in the "startup" folder,
>or had itself set to load on boot.
>
>JK
>
>At Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
> >
> >I have a Mac G3 266mHz. I went away this weekend and my kids used the
> >computer for email and internet access. When I came home I now have a
> >problem: it takes over 30 minutes to boot up. Once I open a program, it
> >works fine, but to go from program to program takes a few minutes, too.
> >
> >Any suggestions on how to get the speed back.
> >
> >I tried to defragment with Norton Utilities (I downloaded the software a
> >while back, don't have the disc) and it came back with a file error, but
> >Disc Doctor says there are no problems.
> >
> >I guess I'm not the computer person I thought I was, as I can't figure
> >it out, and the kids swear they did nothing to the computer.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Rick
> >
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> >Richard Chudacoff, MD
> >Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC
> >
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