Every time I open system preferences, it freezes and I have to force quit.
Everytime I open my system preferences to do, or change, anything it freezes and I a have to force quit, I have tried deleting .plist files and restarting and its still reoccuring.
Click the Apple () menu top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac. The version is noted there.
Troubleshooting advice can depend on that information.
You can add that information to your Apple Support Communities profile. At the top of any ASC window click Your Stuff > Profile > Edit. You must be signed into to do this.
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Since I downloaded the last update for Firefox, it freezes and I have to force quit.
Once I force quit, everything works fine until I open Firefox again.
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, since it also freezes when I try to open other sites, but I also switched to the new Yahoo mail in the last couple of weeks.I am still having the same problem. There have been two Firefox updates since my post, but there is no change.
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Try these in order - from best option on down...
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2004-macword/word-2004-wil l-not-open-or-save-documents/b04eb870-9b0d-4f3b-bb47-b122301e36f6
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Disconnect all drives now to prevent any mistakes from occuring.
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Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk (wired keyboard, internal optical drive), use Disk Utility First Aid to >Repair Disk of your internal drive (do not format or erase!!), Quit DU and simply re-install 10.6.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
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Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it:
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Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
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*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
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hello everyone . recently i have been having some problems with my mac , every time i try to open system preferences it takes soo much time that i want to smash the **** screen never encountered this before its ******* me off and i would appreciate ur help
You can try to use the Web Console (Web Developer > Web Console;Shift+Ctrl+K) to see how much time items take to load.
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Web_Console
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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