At 10:57 AM -0800 on 12/4/03, Timothy Virkkala wrote:This is common. To fix it, boot up with extensions off (hold down the shift key when you turn it on until "extensions disabled" appears on the screen). Once the system entirely loads, open up the system folder. Inside the apple menu items folder, delete all the "recent server" items. Also delete all the "recent documents" and "recent applications" items. Close the apple menu items folder. open the startup items folder and the shutdown items folder. Delete anything that doesnt' look like it should be there. Close all the folders. reboot. this should not only fix that problem but help speed up the whole startup in general.
I'm setting up some older Macs for a community computer center. One is giving me some rather odd problems.
It is a 7500 with an xlr8 300MHz upgrade card.
The odd thing about it is that it is slower than molasses starting up. I don't mean, however, the system (OS 9.1) start-up, which is pretty normal.
I mean, opening up the first window, AFTER start-up. I turn the thing on, and double-click the hard drive icon, and... five minutes later the window finally opens. If I haven't already restarted the Mac out of frustration.
Nevertheless, it does get going, after a while. And behaves rather well most of the time. Programs open up from aliases nicely. Etc.
Anyone come across this before?
The machine only has 68MB of RAM, so that may be a problem. I'll be going to the center in a few moments, and I'll check to see what other problems it may have....
t
Yes I have (on an ibook with OS 9.1) and it was because it was trying to connect to a network server that wasn't there.
If you really want to speed up the boot-up speed, then you can optemize your extensions set, and if you're willing to spend 15$ then try buying Startup Doubler (I can't remember what company makes it though) and install that. The amount that it speeds up your startup varies from computer to computer, but generally is more on older ones and less on newer ones.
Jesse
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