Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, In the last 24 hours I have brought my daughter's iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I was concerned about how to do this on her iMac at first because she has never had an Apple ID. So first I set up an Apple ID for her. However when I started the update her iMac threw up my

Re: Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stephen, Comments in situ below On 20 Oct 2013, at 2:09 pm, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi folks, In the last 24 hours I have brought my daughter's iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I was concerned about how to do this on her iMac at first because she has never

Re: Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi Ronda, I am pretty sure that when my Apple ID popped up for the upgrade, my Login was there but greyed out. That's why I couldn't change it. I could be stuck with it now I guess ! On 20/10/2013, at 5:19 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, Comments in situ below On 20 Oct

Re: Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 20/10/2013, at 2:09 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi folks, In the last 24 hours I have brought my daughter's iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I was concerned about how to do this on her iMac at first because she has never had an Apple ID. So first I set up an

Re: Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Pat
I had this same problem with my husband's iPhone: I agreed to do the management of it on my computer (he steadfastly refuses to learn anything about computers). I tried to register the iPhone in his name, using a different Apple ID and a different email address, but the Apple website simply

Re: Changing Apple ID for an iMac

2013-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you Peter, I am hoping to change this when Mavericks comes along soon. But if I can't then it's not that important. I must have used mine on hers some time ago because she has no credit card. Thank you for everyone's input ! On 20/10/2013, at 6:38 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com

Java Removal

2013-10-20 Thread Alan Smith
I believe I had previously un-installed the Java Safari plug-in, but Software Update gave me a message to install Java SE6 update. How can I remove Java from my 2009 iMac running Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5, so I am not prompted to update? Here are the contents of the usual locations: