Wow, Søren, thanks for all these suggestions! I'll try them out and see what works. I did try a Repair Permissions again yesterday, but that didn't help. So, really appreciate all this, it gives me someplace to go next. Take care, Donna On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Søren Jensen wrote:
> Hi. > > You can try the following: > Restart your RAM by holding down option, command and the characters p and r > while the machine is booting up. you have to hold down these 4 keys just > after you've heard the Apple chime sound, and keep holding the keys down > until the sound has been repeeded 3 or 4 times. > > You could also try to insert your Mac OSX install disc, boot up from it and > choose to repair your harddrive using disc utilities. > > An other great idea is to close all your running wegits if you don't use > them. You can do it by doing the following: > 1: Press f12 or fn f12 to bring up the dash board. > 2: Bring up the window chooser by pressing Vo f2 twice, just so you'll know > how many running wegits you have. > 3: Choose one of the wegits you wanna close, and press Vo command f2 to close > the wegit. Keep press Vo command f2, and confirm by hitting the return key to > close the selected wegit, until you've closed all the wegits. > > I hope this will speed your computer up a bit. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > Den Apr 28, 2010 kl. 8:59 PM skrev Donna Goodin: > >> Hi James, Soren, and all, >> >> OK, I just found that. The only item that was in the table was Itunes >> Helper. I deleted it, but my Mac is still taking a long time to boo. Any >> other suggestions? >> Thanks, >> Donna >> On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:44 PM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> >>> In the accounts reference, there will be a tab called "login items" you >>> should be able to fin any application that start when Mac oS X start here. >>> TC >>> James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny >>> On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:47, Donna Goodin wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Søren, >>>> >>>> Can you be more specific about how you got to this setting? I looked >>>> under system preferences, then accounts, but don't see anything like that. >>>> TIA, >>>> Donna >>>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> >>>>> I had the same issue until I saw a weird application was starting up >>>>> together with the os. I think it was called something like CT helper and >>>>> then some digits. You can remove or disable these apps in the accounts >>>>> settings in System preferences under your account and under "login items." >>>>> Best regards >>>>> Søren Jensen >>>>> Mail & MSN: >>>>> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >>>>> Website: >>>>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>>>> >>>>> Den Apr 28, 2010 kl. 3:50 PM skrev Donna Goodin: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Recently, it seems like my MacBook takes *forever to boot. It used to >>>>>> boot really quickly. 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