My daughter has an iBook G4. When you turn it on the wallpaper comes up but no toolbar or icons. It's just frozen and you can't do anything. Any tips out there?

My daughter has an iBook G4. When you turn it on, the wallpaper comes up but no toolbar or icons. It's just frozen and you can't do anything. Any tips out there?

Once the Desktop shows up, then it is started up as far as it will go.
If it doesn't progress, then something is definitely wrong.
Do you know the capacity of the hard drive and how much space remains available on it? Sometimes operating anomalies such as this can happen if the hard drive is too full.
Do you have access to another Mac with FireWire?

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