Marta, It could be something as simple as a damaged Finder Preference file.
Boot your Mac with extensions disabled by holding the Shift key down. Once at your desktop, perform a Find File and search for Finder Preference. Once located, delete the file and restart normally. It may function normally after this. Then again, it may not. Let us know. Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On 3/2/03 10:54 AM, "Marta Edie" <mledie at insightbb.com> wrote: > I am haviing a problem when booting up. This has persisited for a week now. > The computer will only boot up as far as showing the hard disk, and the two > pop-up windows at the bottom. No trash, not explorer icon . I had already > done away with starting items and the couple of other icons which I kept on > the desktop. - I need to shut the computer down (pressing the start button, > nothing else works), then, disk fifirst aid runs its course through and then > the machine starts up ok. Apple walked me through a total disk clean of my > hard drive. Nothing happened. - This only happens in the morning after a > night's rest. When I turn off the machine and turn it back on right away, it > boots up fine. It also boots up fine on a restart. For a whole week now I > have to go to this strange morning ritual. Can you all give me your input? > Know something Apple does not? Marta > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
