Re: info

2011-01-31 Thread Matthew Healey
On 30/01/2011, at 1:13 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: I have just received an email with this at the bottom of the correspondence .As a matter of interest is the info in bold true legally? It is the recipients' responsibility to examine this email and any attachments for viruses. People

Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good afternoon all, My ageing 17 MacBook Pro is slowing down significantly i.e. taking up to 5 minutes to boot up and about a minute to open the system preferences and between 60 seconds to open Pages and 90 seconds for Word for the first time in a secession. I have tried all the usual

Re: Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, Did you try all the suggestions I posted in reply to Severin’s Subject: Re: Malaise on 27/01/2011? If you can’t find it I’ll re-post “Speeding up your Mac” FYI. Have you checked “Login Items” “Activity Monitor? How much “Free” Space do you have on your Hard Drive? In some

Removing Microsoft Office

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Hawkins
I have Office 2004 and Office 2011 installed on my MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.6). Many of my emails and other documents on my computer were created or received using Office 2004. I want to tidy my hard drive up, but because I frequently have to look at old files I have the following concerns: 1. If

data recovery places

2011-01-31 Thread lynnkoh
hi cant say this enough - *blushes at ronni* - BACK UP!!! anyway, back to business. does anyone know of any good data recovery places around? ol' trusty's hard drive has died and apple cant get data off. the disk is spinning but not reading. apple is replacing hard drive,

Re: Slowing MacBook Pro

2011-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks Ronni, I created a new account with Admin status and made it the primary. It now boots up a bit quicker taking 2 minutes to get to the splash screen (the one after the initial grey and blue screens) from there it takes another minute to show all the main menu. Its very sluggish