Cocktail

h to shutdown now. I have even made apple scripts that will do that for me. I have run the updater 3 times now no lover there. Used cocktail god knows how may times and have done DiskWarrior to many times to count. ...

Thank you very much! However, I called up a friend this morning and asked him what he thought it was, and he admitted to using Cocktail on my system to enable Kiosk mode (which disables logout/shutdown) apparently as a joke... so uhh, I guess I got 'owned'. Heh. Thanks again!

This is the second macbook i have this problem with. I tried running cocktail and repair the file permissions to no avail. ...

Guys- I'm new to this (PC convert) Hopefully you can help me out-- I'm looking for an app something like window washer (mac washer) that will securely clean logs/cache etc but will function with stability and not screw up my system- as some reviews have suggested about mac washer... Also- cocktail/onyx/macsweeper-- what do these do and will I potentially do more harm than...

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...

If you're not command line phobic and have an admin password, you can also perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance routines from the Terminal: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly You'll then be prompted for the password. You can run any of them individually as well, and I like to tack on another command to quit the Terminal when it's done -- as in: sudo periodic daily;...

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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 'Tiger' -...