Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-14 Thread Erik Ness
DiskWarrior was my favorite and most functional OS9 utility. Alsoft makes it. Cheers, Erik -- ### Erik Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-242-7604 Stuck in Reverse: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05win/detroit1.asp Moving Mountains:

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-14 Thread Kristina Rost
periodically run the fine and free utility OnyX and have it done the maintenance tasks (like clearing cache files, virtual memory files and all that). I don't want OnyX its for X, what can I get for my Lombard 400 w/OS 9 to make it go as fast as it can, nicely, no lock ups... It seems real

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-14 Thread Claire Hart
Thanks to Dennis and Laurent for suggesting OnyX. I installed it last night and ran nearly everything there was to run, and it made a TREMENDOUS difference! Web sites open very quickly (I was beginning to think I was back on dial-up). iPhoto's response to keystrokes has noticably improved

regular PB maintenance

2004-12-13 Thread Claire Hart
I bought my 17 1.5 GHz PowerBook last summer, and then installed 2 GB of RAM a few months ago. While I am not running anything high-powered right now, I have not noticed any improvement in going from the 512 RAM to the 2 GB RAM. Not only that, but things are beginning to slow down, as if my

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/12/04 16:16, Claire Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought my 17 1.5 GHz PowerBook last summer, and then installed 2 GB of RAM a few months ago. While I am not running anything high-powered right now, I have not noticed any improvement in going from the 512 RAM to the 2 GB RAM. Not

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-13 Thread Luis Sequeira
I bought my 17 1.5 GHz PowerBook last summer, and then installed 2 GB of RAM a few months ago. While I am not running anything high-powered right now, I have not noticed any improvement in going from the 512 RAM to the 2 GB RAM. Not only that, but things are beginning to slow down, as if my hard

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-13 Thread bobgir2004
I subscribe to several Lists like this one and, following the advice of more experienced users, here's what I have come up with for my weekly maintenance routine for my: Dual-USB, 500MHz G3 12 iBook 640MB of RAM 10Gb IDE Hard Drive OS 10.3.5 AirPort Card 8.2011 1. Do a Safe Boot. (Shift key) 2.

Re: regular PB maintenance

2004-12-13 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
At 3:16 PM -0600 12/13/04, Claire Hart wrote: I bought my 17 1.5 GHz PowerBook last summer, and then installed 2 GB of RAM a few months ago. While I am not running anything high-powered right now, I have not noticed any improvement in going from the 512 RAM to the 2 GB RAM. Not only that, but