At 4:26 PM -0700 3/7/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Dan wrote:
Now I'm trying to figure out how to make him administrator so he
has access.
Still not a good idea.
He needs to logout. Then you login to an administrator account,
open System
Preferences,
Thanks everyone for all your replies. We've made a To Do List and the
first item is backup his whole drive - I will buy him an external on
Thursday.
So we will be implementing many of your excellent suggestions, just
not today :@D
We did ask the other two guys what kind of RAM they have
On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Dan wrote:
Actually I'll disagree with Dan here; it works perfectly well to do this
while the user is logged in; you have to use the credentials of an current
administrator to do so, of course, but once you've done this they can do
anything they want. No need
At 10:52 PM + 3/6/2011, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Have you looked at the reasons apple and MS say not to defrag?
MS doesn't want you to defrag because the need for such is
embarrassing to them, and the speed-up it creates causes consumers to
not buy new computers.
Apple doesn't
At 8:09 PM -0500 3/6/2011, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
My son has been playing with three of his friends online with one of
the friends setting up his PC as a server. We're on the edge of my
knowledge base here, have never set up a Mac as a server. But maybe
the gameplay lags have to do not
So we got OnyX. It quits unexpectedly right after opening.
Help!
On Mar 6, 2011, at 6:43 PM, bit...@ovi.com wrote:
i like OnyX best :)
- Original message -
From: Anne Keller-Smith earth...@ptd.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Clean My Mac: OnyX vs. MacJanitor
Date
On Mar 7, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
So we got OnyX. It quits unexpectedly right after opening.
Help!
Do you have the correct version for your OS X level?
There's a different one for each of Panther, Tiger, Leopard, IIRC.
--
You received this message because you are a
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Dan wrote:
Now I'm trying to figure out how to make him administrator so he has access.
Still not a good idea.
He needs to logout. Then you login to an administrator account, open System
Preferences, Accounts tab, and select his account. Check the box for
At 4:14 PM -0800 3/5/2011, Justin The Cynical wrote:
I play minecraft as well, let me see what I can offer...
Anybody a gamer and can give some insight into what types
of things slow down a computer? He says it's a Java game.
Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo
1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS
On 3/6/11 6:50 AM, Dan wrote:
Easy enough to verify: Run Activity Monitor. Set it to update less
often. Display the system memory pane. Watch the size of the Inactive
list and the page in/out rates. If the inactive list is tiny, then
you're low on RAM. If the paging rates are going nutz
i like OnyX best :)
- Original message -
From: Anne Keller-Smith earth...@ptd.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Clean My Mac: OnyX vs. MacJanitor
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:51:40 -0500
How does OnyX differ from MacJanitor?
On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Mike wrote
Justin and all ~
My son has been playing with three of his friends online with one of
the friends setting
up his PC as a server. We're on the edge of my knowledge base here,
have never set
up a Mac as a server. But maybe the gameplay lags have to do not only
with our
setup but with the
On 3/6/11 7:09 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
Justin and all ~
My son has been playing with three of his friends online with one of
the friends setting
up his PC as a server. We're on the edge of my knowledge base here,
have never set
up a Mac as a server. But maybe the gameplay lags have to do
My 13 y.o. wants to use this to speed up his Mac.
Is it kosher? It was going to defrag and my understanding
is that Macs don't need defragging.
He also wants admin privileges for his Mac. I say no cuz
I want to vet any software he gets it into his head to install.
I looked at his HD and About
I personally wouldn't. The site looks nice enough, but it's not freeware,
and Mac's don't need to be defragged.
As far as Minecraft goes, I had a lot of freezing and crashing going on
recently until I ran OnyX. I would recommend OnyX for any Mac. Being that
Minecraft is unfortunately a Java game.
On 3/5/11 6:35 PM, Mike wrote:
I personally wouldn't. The site looks nice enough, but it's not freeware,
and Mac's don't need to be defragged.
As far as Minecraft goes, I had a lot of freezing and crashing going on
recently until I ran OnyX. I would recommend OnyX for any Mac.
Right on about
On 3/5/11 3:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
He also wants admin privileges for his Mac. I say no cuz
I want to vet any software he gets it into his head to install.
Good idea. :-) The few bits of malware for the Mac OS that exist still
need admin permissions to install, and they are getting
How does OnyX differ from MacJanitor?
On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Mike wrote:
I personally wouldn't. The site looks nice enough, but it's not
freeware, and Mac's don't need to be defragged.
As far as Minecraft goes, I had a lot of freezing and crashing going
on recently until I ran OnyX.
18 matches
Mail list logo
