On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 07:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:51 PM, Donald Keenan wrote: > >> If I were to drag one into the trash, I assume I'd be >> disabling the related program or drive, etc? > > > Extensions are merely 'mini" applications that consume some of your > System heap RAM to be ready for different tasks, such as faxing, etc. I > wouldn't trash Extensions until you know exactly what they do. The > easiest way to troubleshoot an Extension conflict (which is what your > drive trouble sounds like) or to disable Extensions, is instead of > trashing them, use the Extensions Manager Control Panel. This way you > can duplicate (look in the menu bar) the set that is working or that > you'd like to fix, disable or enable individual or groups of Extensions > to experiment, and if something goes wrong, simply revert to the set > that is known good, or at least known- least amount of problems. > There's some good tutorials and info out there and a Sherlock might > yield some help unless someone else knows of them offhand. > > Also, a nice tip is that after you have different sets of Extensions > (such as one without particular drivers and one with), you don't have > to restart, select the set you want and restart again. You can simply > hold the space bar as soon as you hear the startup chime. Continue > holding it until it brings up the Extensions Manager. At this point you > can select the set you want to use, and then continue the startup "on > the fly". > > > dave > > Dave: Extensions Manager Control Panel? I don't know where that is. My Sherlock never gives me a search result, something about the volume not being indexed. So, I've never successfully used Sherlock. I don't think the installation of the driver actually occurred. Does that mean there could still be trouble? This hard drive has both OS 9 and OS X on it...I was in OS X. Should I suspect that something happened to OS 9? Man...I'm not sure what I'm dealing with here. Trouble, I suppose :) Donald
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