On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 07:05 AM, Sherry Landry wrote: > <Extensions Manager Control Panel? I don't know where that is.> > > Donald, don't be hard on yourself. It took me a while to know what to > ask > about, too. > Go to the Apple icon in the upper left hand corner of your screen. > Click on the Apple. > When the screen opens, click on Control Panels. Look down the list of > control panels > and find Extention Manager & click it. Take some time to look over > this one. > Note I said 'LOOK'. Click on one of the icons in the list. It will > give you > the name and purpose of each extension. Look at things and read first > I dumped > all kinds of stuff when I first got my mac because they had Bill > Gates - related > (Microsoft) items. If I didn't know what they meant I got rid of it. Big > mistake. I had to re-install twice. > > You learn. Always ask. > > Sherry > >
Sherry: This Dalmatian doesn't have a partitioned hard drive, so OS 9 and OS X reside on one volume. I never really wanted OS 9 and I never boot up in it, though I have accidentally begun the process but stop it when asked whether I want to boot up in 9 (I've tried to copy a screen saver image from 9 into X) and this caused Classic to start to launch. I'm not sure how sensitive OS 9 is to something like that. To me, OS 9 lurks in the shadows. So, being in OS X, I'm not seeing the Extensions Manager and I'm praying that plugging the external floppy drive in and aborting the installation (after the installer told me it couldn't install without a systems folder) hasn't somehow screwed with OS 9 and caused some conflict that I'll not really be able to diagnose. I bought a mac just as OS X was being marketed (10.0.) and after having problems with OS 9, I decided to not bother to learn about it. It seems --to someone unfamiliar with it--that it requires way too much maintenance. I'm still learning bit by bit how to do things I take for granted at work in Windows (not that I'm a "power user" by any means) on my macs at home. Meanwhile, I'm not using the floppy drive until I buy a USB hub as suggested here. (I'm so cautious that Jaguar is sitting unopened until I buy DiskWarrior). -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
