Cocktail Mac

Only Apple provides 'Finder's menus; the menus listed along the right side of the menu bar (whether 'Finder' is the front most process or not) are not 'Finder' specific, and are managed by 'SystemUIServer'. 'I just kick in Cocktail in and then have it run and then reset my system' - 'Cocktail' has nothing to do with 'SystemUIServer's handling of Apple's and third party's...

Now what you might try is runing Cocktail. Because ever so often my CPU loads hit as high as 8.8 load. When it hits this high I just kick in Cocktail in and then have it run and then reset my system when back up loads back to below 1. hope that helps. ...

I have a powermac g4 (mirrored doors)dual 1 gig with 1.25GB of RAM. I have had it since march of 2003. I am running Jaguar 10.2.8 I am having some weird symptoms and I was wondering if someone could help me troubleshoot the problem. Here are some of the strange things my computer is doing: It often randomly tells me I need to restart my computer by pressing and holding down...

Preferred you do: For the sake of simplicity. 01. Purchase a new ATA 3.5" hard disk drive, hdd, less than 130 GB in size and at 7200 rpm (revolutions per minute). 02. Install the new hdd (with its jumpers set for 'slave') on top of the current drive. 03. Install 'Tiger' (MacOS X 10.4.x) onto the slave drive. Once you have 'Tiger' installed, and the Mac booted with...

Does your Mac often "seem to break" and how does that look like? ...

EVERY time the first time I open it. The second time it stays open and eventually the network shares start to appear, slowly. Not every Mac has this problem and all are running 10.3.9. Ihave already tried tossing the finder.plist and no difference. ...

I am having trouble with Apple Mail. Lately it has asked me over and over for my gmail password for account. However, starting Monday Apple Mail crashes as soon as I open it. I ran the disk utility without any luck. I ran Mac OS Cocktail - no luck either. I also deleted the file: com.apple.mail.plist. That allowed me to open up Mail and set up all new preferences. It...

Defragging Mac hard drive is not really needed; HFS+ does not get fragged in use. Just use Disk Utility (included in OS X) every now and then to check permissions. Cocktail and MacJanitor are two generic cleaners / fixer programs. If you don't use M$ Office, you are even macro virus free.

Those are both good ideas in general, especially for dealing with a system that seems to be running more slowly than normal, but neither suggestion is at all likely to fix the problem complained of here. In fact, there are some folks who dispute whether repairing permissions ever helps anything. See: http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php My view isn't that...

It also doesn't hurt to run some general maintenance scripts on your Mac from time to time. ...