Long time starting up

When I start up I get the blank blue screen for at least 5 minutes. This is only in OS.X. I use OS.9 often still and don't get any problem starting up in that. I do get this issue when changing Start Up Disk from OS.9 to OS.X. They are on the same harddrive.

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

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Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

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Going from Lion back to Snow Leopard is not as straight forward as it should be.
Do you have a backup of your Snow Leopard iMac disk before upgrading to Lion? If you do, that is the simplest way to go back to SL. If not, then, there is no simple way to do so.
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Hello!
In our company we started to use Outlook 2013 clients, several users are contacting us because Outlook 2013 needs about a 1 minute or more to show that is loading the application / "Loading window":
If the user by mistake try to open Outlook again, pops the next message:
"Sorry, we're having trouble startind Outlook. Only one version of Outlook can run at time. Check to see of anopther version of Outlook is running, or try restarting your computer."
And also appears another one with saying:
"The operation failed due to an installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall."
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If they clic on "Yes" Outlook starts very fast but if they click on "No" takes about 1 or 2 minutes to pop the Outlook "Loading window"
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Also tried to repair and reinstall the Office package, create a new local profile with new OST file.
The issue happens to diferent email/user accounts and computers.
We are working using Exchange configurations, and our build is W7 x64 enterprise, office 2013 32bits Standard.
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Hi,
If you don't mind modifying the registry keys, you can try the following steps:
Important
This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the
registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-the-registry
Start -> Run -> type in regedit.
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Right-click on Common -> New -> DWORD Value. Name it UserData.
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When i turn it on it takes a long time to start up and it freezes in some of the apps so I had to turn it off

Recently when I turn on my mac it takes a long time to start up and at first and in the beginning it appears with a grey screen and at the end it turns blue.
Also it freezes in some of the Apps, so it make me to turn of.
Please be kind enough to guide me to solve these problems.
I thank you in advance for your cooperation and quick response.
Best Regards
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i had my mac pro for less than a year.
i updated it to lion.
now, my mac heats up very fast, the fans won't stop running, and my startup seems to get slower and slower

I assume that's 117°F ?
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
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Actually, I just discovered it doesn't seem to have anything to do with OpenCL. I just put the rendering back to software only and it is doing the same thing. hangs for a long time before it starts to run. Activity monitor shows it running 85-95% CPU, 17 threads and about 615 MB of memory. Activity Monitor doesn't say its not responding, it just seems kind of idle. It took almost 7 minutes for it to start rendering.
1- Running version 7.2.2.29 of Media Encoder,
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2- Yes, a premiere project of HD 1080 source shot with Canon 60D, output to H.264 YouTube 720, fps 23.976
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