MacBook Pro running 10.6.7 freezes

Hello,
The problem I have faced today is when I clicked System Preferences icon in Programms the window of System Preferences showed up but there was only one row (1st one) of icons and the rest were missing... first I could understand what had happened as the cursor was moving perfectly... but then I have noticed that the system was frozen... I couldn't switch between windows, the Dock was not responding and hotkeys were useless as well... the only way was to switch the mackbook pro off by pushing and holding the hardware button... then i turned it on and the OS X started without any hint that is had been impropely shut down... and again I tried to launch System Preferences... and it caused the system freeze one more time....
Please help!

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Report generated October 25, 2014 at 12:56:58 PM EDT
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1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
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          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
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          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
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          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          SMART Board Support
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                    Untitled 1 [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 0 B
                    Total number of backups: (null)
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               3%          mds
               2%          firmwaresyncd
               1%          coreservicesd
               1%          Finder
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          90 MB          Microsoft Word
          86 MB          Safari
          61 MB          WindowServer
          53 MB          Dock
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          1.37 GB          Active RAM
          92 MB          Inactive RAM
          526 MB          Wired RAM
          272 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

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something similar has been happening to me for a a couple weeks (even before the most recent update, but now is definitely worse) on my 2010 MacBook Air. Firefox freezes upon startup, and then freezes maybe every twenty minutes or so when I'm actively using it, staying frozen for at least a minute or two. it drives me crazy.

I have an Epson printer on a Wifi network. Windows 7 desktop and and HP Win 7 laptop (my wifes) print to it just fine. My MacBook Pro running Yosemite won't detect it, and I have the latest driver installed. No problem when I had a Canon...

I have an Epson printer on a Wifi network. Windows 7 desktop is running the network, and my wife's HP Win 7 laptop prints to it just fine. My MacBook Pro running Yosemite won't detect it, and I do have the latest driver installed. I didn't have a problem when I had a Canon Pixma on the network, but when I replaced it with the Epson nothing seems to work. I go to add a printer to the queue and only the FAX function of the printer shows up - not the WS-4530 print function. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Please??? :-)

Hi Kelly,
As someone who has to print from my Mac to a networked printer at home all the time, I can certainly understand how frustrating it must be to have that fail to perform as expected. Let's see if we can get you up and running.
I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
OS X Yosemite: Printing troubleshooting
Start with the section titled Check the network.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Sincerely,
Brett L

How do I use my Time Capsule to back up my wife's MacBook Pro running 10.4.

I just installed a Time Capsule. I've extended the range with two Airport Expresses. I've connected my MacBook running 10.6.3 to the wireless network. I've connected my wife's MacBook Pro running 10.4.11 to it. I've connected my wife's 3G iPhone to it and my first gen iPhone to it and our Apple TV to it. All devices can connect to the internet. I've connected the Time Capsule to the printer and printed wirelessly from both computers.
I've backed up my MacBook and seen that the Time Machine is backing up my MacBook as it should.
How do use the Time Capsule to back up my wife's MacBook Pro running 10.4.11? I've tried connecting them via ethernet cable and via USB cable. In both cases the Time Capsule failed to show up as an external drive and wasn't seen by the 10.4.11 back up utility.
How do people do this? (Other than convincing their wives to let them upgrade their MacBook Pro to 10.6.3?)

James Elliott1 wrote:
How do people do this? (Other than convincing their wives to let them upgrade their MacBook Pro to 10.6.3?)
That really is your best option. Sooner or later, you're going to have a problem with the "other" data on your Time Capsule, since the backups of your Mac will, eventually, fill up all the available empty space. That will, of course, limit the space available for the other backups.
There's a very cumbersome workaround in the blue box of #Q3 of the Using TIME MACHINE with a TIME CAPSULE *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
Another is to connect a USB drive to the Time Capsule, partition it if desired, and back up one Mac to it and the other to the TC's internal drive.

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