MacBook Taking An Excesses Of 20 Minutes To Start Up
Apr 14, 2012
My Macbook over the last month has been running slower than usual. I first started experiencing problems after I installed and uninstalled parallels. When I went to uninstall parallels I got an error during the installation, and I removed that files manually.My macbook started responding slower than usual and I repaired the disk permissions and that fixed the problem temporarily.I then downloaded MacKeeper and to clean my MacBook up and that seemed to fix the problem for the short term.Then the other night I shut down my MacBook and I just noticed my time machine backup was still running.Ever since then it has taken an excess of 10 minutes to start up if not longer.When I say start up I am refering from the white screen with the apple logo to the login menu. I have tried the reset PRAM, and I'm running out of ideas, the only thing I have left in my mind is to try and remove the battery and put it in again.
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2009 MacBook Pro
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Step 1: Loaded kernel extensions: com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3)Â Â Loaded user agents: net.culater.SIMBL.Agent com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist
[Code] ....
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