Sometimes my laptop will load a program automatically when I start it up. Most often it's Firefox, but it has also done this with OpenOffice. I've checked my Start Up items and neither of these are on there. Everything on my laptop is up to date and I've run Disk Utility. What could be causing this?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I received billing for LION but program is locked as LOADING for almost 1 hour. No indicator to show loading progress or has loading stopped
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How to stop this from happening? On every restart or logout/login, this odd image file loads in preview - like its a startup item or something. Its from the Xerox printers folder under the root library. Makes no sense to me. Here's two screen shots:
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Running OS 10.6.4 on a unibody MacBPro 13" with Parallel 5 / Window Home 7. Every time I restart or start up, Parallel starts loading windows. I have checked OS 10.6.4 in the Preferences start up disc to no avail. When I shut down Parallel, it states "Windows is running, do you want to shut down? What do I do to start up in the Mac enviroment again?
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View 13 Replies View RelatedI was watching Netflix two days ago when all of a sudden the image froze (the audio continued). I figured my internet was slow or something and waited a little for the image to keep moving, but nothing happened only the audio kept going. I tried to press esc to exit full screen mode, but nothing happened, I pressed more keys, still no reaction, even the audio and screen brightness keys didn't work. So I held the power button to do a force shut down.
After a couple of minutes, I pressed the power button again, startup sound played, then the white screen with the apple logo and loading gear appeared together with a grey loading bar. I figured that meant it had to repair something and waited. After two minutes it just shut off. I decided to leave it closed for the night. The exact same thing happened last night and tonight as well.
I have a MacBook Pro, I think its from 2010, with iOS Maverick installed. I also have MacKeeper on there, which I just read is apparently not a good thing. I tried finding an answer in the discussion forums, but I could only find that you should do a safe boot, which is supposed to make the grey loading bar appear, but that already showed up before and even when I tried holding down the shift key, the same thing happened.
I upgraded to OSX Lion and my only issue so far has been after a restart the airport icon and battery/power (time remaining icon) do not load in the menu bar for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute after the desktop has loaded. I will be get an IP address and establish a connection but I am unable to use the airport menu bar prefrences until the after I wait for the icon to load. It's rather annoying when I need to select a particular wi-fi SSID after startup.
Completed PRAM reset, disk repair, and disk utility verification.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I am relatively new to MAC OS X (Snow Leopard) and Unix. I need to run my remote control software upon system start-up before user login. I know how to set a program to run AFTER a user logs in but this doesn't do me any good. For example: Right now I am using LogMeIn Remote Control Software. When I boot OS X the LogMeIn software is already running in the background at the user login screen before any user has even logged in.
I want to stop using LogMeIn and switch to TeamViewer but the TeamViewer software only runs after I have logged in. I need it to run at the user login screen before I have actually logged in so that when I reboot my computer or switch back and forth from Windows XP I can login remotely, just like with LogMeIn. With LogMeIn after a re-boot I the user login & password screen is sitting there waiting for me (or any user) to login. Is what I want to do even possible?
My 5 y.o. aluminum iMac recently went kaput on me. Problems it has:
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-Freezes during safe boot mode; grey line won't progress past first 10% or so
-DVD stuck in optical drive and nothing works to get it out, so I can't boot from my install disk
-fsck -fy doesn't complete, and keeps timing out
-Migration Assistant either stalls the receiving computer, or just gives me "network" errors (even though I'm connected to the internet), or other errors.
I can't run terminal, disk utility, or any other kind of programs.How do I rescue my files from my failing iMac??
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I have a MacBook Pro from 2010 I believe with iOS Maverick installed. (MacKeeper is also on there, which I just found out is apparently malware)
So three days ago I was watching Netflix, the image froze, but the audio kept going. Figured my internet was slow, so I waited a little, nothing happened. pressed escape to leave the full screen mode, but nothing happened. None of the keys would do anything, not even the sound or brightness keys. So I did a force shut down by holding down the power button.
I waited a little, then decided to turn it back on. Start up sound played, white screen with grey apple logo and loading gear appeared together with a grey loading bar. I figured that this meant it had to repair something. But after about a minute or two it just went to a black screen/ shut down. I left it off for a day, tried it again, same thing. Next day I tried booting it up while holding the shift key to do the safe boot (I knew it wouldn't work since I already had the grey loading bar anyways), same thing happened.
Cannot eject the start-up disk from my PowerBook G4 (laptop). Can anyone help me? My screen is blank too, that's why I'm using the start-up disk.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4 GHz), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
At Start up on OS Lion 10.7 it opens a lot of program windows How can I stop this happening?
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MacBook Pro
I downloaded a program that cleans unused files and unneeded files. Apparently it erased some kind of startup files or something cause I shut the computer down one night and the next morning I went to turn it on and it just goes to the blue screen and the loading icon comes on for 5 minutes. It is a Macbook and after sitting there for 5 minutes it just shuts down and tries to start up again. I don't know what I have to do to restore it cause it removed my thingy called "Matt" which is I guess my hard drive name. I'm not every good with computers so I dont know all the names for things.
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MacBook Pro, OS X 19.9.4.
when i am trying to login into my user account on my macbook pro. it just starts loading but after that it doesnt display anything and keeps on loading for hours.Also when i logged into guest user it asked me to restart for the safari use only and after using that option i am just able to use safari with the displaying problems.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65), iMac11,2, PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS09
Just stopped accepting discs today. No firmware or software updates in a few weeks
I just bought a brand new mac book pro laptop (10.9.4) and have been trying for weeks to get my iMessages to work on it. Things I've tried:
old mac:
1. I've completely removed my icloud account on my old laptop. with a reboot.
New mac:
1. Completely removed iMessages on my new laptop with a reboot (a few times, and tried to reset everything in sync with my iPhone)
2. Signed in and out of the iCloud. removed my iCloud account and reset it up again.
3. signed in/out of my iMessages account (whilst rebooting and also tried doing that while my phone was off)
Iphone:
1. Signed off, signed on my iPhone.
2. logged out in airplane mode, then logged back on and re-added my iMessage account on my iPhone.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I want to install a copy of Osx on my dell laptop. as orginal os or on a virtual machine.
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My wife and me have separate Apple ID's and one lap top at home. We have synced our data on the lap top and now face a situation where in her contacts are on my contact list on the phone and vice versa.
We use Outlook 2010 on our lap top.
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1
I have a new MacBook Pro and have discovered Messages. I love how I can continue my conversations from my iPhone, however none of the contact details are there - they are only numbers and email addresses. How do I link Message to Contacts so it has the contact info for each person?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
IMovie and Pages disappeared from Launchpad after update.
How can I restore them to the Launchpad?
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I am aware there are others threads of my problem however they date back years ago and after trying their solutions it still does not work.
After using Time Machine to restore my hard drive from a backup, I can't get past the white loading screen with apple logo after system restart during restore process. Ive gone into disk utility and repaired hard drive - it's fine. So I know this is a software glitch. I've also tried resetting SMC & PRAM (whatever those mean). No success and i cannot get past the white loading screen.
I'm running Mavericks (latest) on a late 2009 iMac
I've installed a program on my 2008 Mac Pro (Mavericks) called CyberViewX, which is an application for a 35mm film scanner I recently purchased, a PrimeFilm XE. The program is actually installed in the TWAIN directory tree on the Mac. (Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources)
When I log on to a "regular" admin level account (that is, the account does have administrative privileges) the program will not run; it thinks for a bit, and then says "please run as administrator"
If I open a terminal window, drill down to the program executable (it's actually buried quite deeply in the application's directory tree, but no matter), and run the program with a sudo command (sudo ./CyberViewX) and enter my admin password when prompted, the program runs fine.
Is there an easier way to do this - that is, to have the program always run with "administrator" privileges, so I don't get the error message. If nothing else, the program is also invoked by other software that came with the scanner; these programs will not work, because they use CyberViewX to actually acquire images, and CyberViewX gives the same "Please run as administrator" error message .
I have some movies on MKV files that work on a MKV program that I have but every time I open the file it opens a file file converter program that I have. Is there a way to make it so all of the mkv files open in the mkv program without left clicking on each one and setting it to open in the MKV program each time?
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 32gb of ram
I have gotten this message a few times now. in a small pop-up window. I have however lots of free space. Over 1 TB on both my internal drive and on my backup.
Have checked for software updates. I don't have any antivirus programs or other such stuff. It happens when I have Final Cut Pro X open. Also happened when I was using Aperture. In other words no third party programs.
iMac 27-inch, late 2012
OSX 10.9.4
3,4Ghz - i7
24 GB 1600Mhz DDR3
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
How do you delete old searches form map program?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I need to have 2 copies of Mozilla Firefox with abolutely separate settings on my iMac.
On my previous PC I had 2 portable copies of FIrefox from portableapps.com Can something like that be performed on iMac?
Why: sometimes I need to use a US proxy setiings in brouser (to purchase @ US stores that block foreign IPs). On the other hand I have my main everyday Firefox set up for my everyday needs. Switching settings is quite annoying. I just had a separate copy of FF on my PC for use with US proxe settings before i moved to iMac.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
