I am experiencing a problem when loading a Classic application on my G3
600MHz iMac running 10.3.9.
When going for my trusty Office 98 (most often PowerPoint but also
Excel and Word) while in my main administrator (= grown ups!) account,
both Classic and the app will load OK. However, a few menu clicks
later and both Classic and the app will freeze. After force quitting
from both Classic and the app and then starting again, Classic appears
to load all the extensions but then freezes with the progress bar
showing about 90%.
Bizarrely, when I try Office 98 from my kid's account on the same
machine it works with no problem. Equally oddly, I can then return to
the admin account, rebuild the desktop via System Preferences and then
get Classic and Office to repeat the same cycle.
Finally, when I load Classic with extensions off it then seems to work
happily, except it then tells me in PowerPoint that Quicktime etc is
missing. It also seems to work OK when I boot the iMac from 9.2.2.
This odd behaviour only seemed to start when I upgraded from 10.1.5 to
Panther and set up the kids' account.
I'm used to chasing down extension conflicts in OS7.x and 8.x, but
doing it through OS X seems to be a slightly different ball game. When
I tried to "sort" the problem using Norton Disk Doctor I succeeded in
crashing the whole machine leaving me with something akin to a black
"screen of death" complete with Unix(?) type prompt. Only some frantic
CD booting and re-building saved the day.
Any help would be gratefully received - I can do without any more
Norton problems.
Thanks
Martin
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