[muglo] Re: Shutdown

On 08/05/06, Chris <kristoff1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> Yes, it is Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder.
> Regardless of whether the HD was reformatted just before you got it
> or not, you should still have reformatted and clean-installed the OS.
> That way you KNOW it's done right ;)

I concur.

> Then before installing ANY software, I'd run Software Update to make
> sure any OS glitches are done with.

And, keep running it until it's installed everything that's relevant.

> When installing your apps, you used the full installers, correct? Not
> just drag-n-drop the files from one Mac to another.

VERY important!!!

> One other thing that may cause problems is RAM. Make sure that Best
> Buy used the proper spec'd memory, and that you have enough of it.

RAM problems would be unlikely to show up at the end of a session.
This is almost certainly software.

> It also may be that OnyX is causing problems.

OnyX is an innocuous program. It allows people to run some of the
"maintenance" features of Mac OS X and tweak some of the system
settings (I don't trust it that much -- most of the times the settings
it tweaks are not formal Apple-supported settings which means that
they likely don't receive the same programming attention that official
settings do).

> I'm not familiar with
> it, but a lot of times, systems slowdowns can be traced back to
> freeware utilities. I know that personally I have had slowdowns after
> installing so-called "productivity enhancers".
> Just my $0.02
> Chris

This is probably due to a "productivity enhancer". I honestly don't
think that it's due to the "demo" nature of the beast (even though I
suggested it ;-)... but it is easier to suggest a re-install than to
fiddle with individual productivity tools.

Eric.

> On May 8, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Tim Kearn wrote:
>
> > Hi Eric,
> > I have installed a number of pieces of software, the same I had
> > used on my
> > iMac.
> > Is there a way to tell what is still running? I think 'Activity
> > Viewer', but
> > I'm not in front of a Mac right now.
> > It was a demo model and it seemed to have the HD reformatted when I
> > first
> > started it up.
> > I did think of that later but wanted it as a last resort!
> > I connect by a cable modem, no networks.
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
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