Getting lags and unable to click on desktop icons
Having some trouble with my imac g4. I cannot click on any of the icons on the desktop. I can click on the toolbar icons.
Also am having some lagging where the drive was making noises like chuchuchuchu and repeating. While this is going on, I get the spinning working cursor and it goes on for sometimes over five minutes. I restarted and got the same problems during restart. Took forever to restart and it didn't solve the problem. The probelm is especially prevelent when on the internet (cable modem firewire through linksys) with hotmail and ebay.
Any ideas what i could do?
Hello Sunnyhood and welcome to discussions,
There is an issue in 10.2.x where sometimes restarting several times cures the first problem you are experiencing.
The hard drive noises are worrying to say the least - Back up the data as soon as you possibly can.
How much free space is left on that drive please?
Click once on the hard drive icon, then hold down the key and then hit i
Capacity XX
Available XX
Used XX
Post back with your values of XX
Regards
Ian
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