Rebuilding the desktop is mainly for keeping your icons connected...so if you start getting a bunch of blank icons then you can rebuild and make them colorful again. Norton utilities is a good purchase to run every month or so. Speed disk and run the Disk Utility. Kept my imac 233 running for 3 years with no lost files, no hard drive crashes. Mark On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:00 AM, DPK wrote:
> I just purchased my first Mac over Christmas: > > Summer 2000 iMac 350Mhz indigo, upgraded to 512 MB RAM > > I have to laugh to myself as I sit here and flounder around with it. > I have > worked with PCs for about 20 years, now. > > I feel completely at ease working with DOS variants, Linux, Windows, > etc... > but sitting here in front of a Mac is giving me a newfound dose of > humility. > > My questions: > 1. Are there maintenance procedures that need to be run with some > kind of > frequency (ie, error checking and disk defragmentation)? > 2. If so... where do I find the utilities that manage such needs? > 3. What necessitates "rebuilding your desktop"? And how do I do > such a > thing? > > With appreciation for your help, > > > Dave > > "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of > life, > when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be > enthusiastic about." > ------ Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 > > > > > > -- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
