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Macintosh Tips and Tricks Archive:
Troubleshooting Tip:
A bad motherboard battery creates a constant state of confusion
(kind of like Alzheimer's for the PRAM) and could cause your Mac
to start up sometimes but not other times. If this sounds like your
situation, try replacing your motherboard battery.
Troubleshooting Tip--Disk Cache:
Under Mac OS 8 or 9, set your disk cache to 32K for each megabyte
of memory you have. Although you lose some available RAM to the
disk cache, the Finder will speed up quite a bit as a result. The
Mac also has a default setting that does this for you if you like.
Performance Tip--Monitors:
Don't use a desktop picture. The desktop picture sucks up RAM and
processor cycles, so unless you're really stuck on the picture,
get rid of it.
Troubleshooting Tip--Extensions:
Keep only what you need. Although it's tempting to download and
use every single possible extension that ever existed, resist this
urge, as it is the fastest road to hell. Instead, choose your extensions
wisely. Otherwise you'll run out of RAM and suffer intense extension
conflicts-and your little toes will probably fall off, too.
Internet Tip--Navigator and IE:
Make it a habit to open two windows in your Web browser. Then, while
you wait for insanely large graphics to download in one window,
click on the other window and go in search of other pages.
Interface tip:
Command-click on the name in a window's title bar while in the Finder,
and you'll get a listing of where the window's folder is on your
hard drive.
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