Shut down or restart without dialog box?
Is there a way to modify the apple menu so I can shut down or restart without a dialog box? And with out turning on VoiceOver? Thanks - Eric
I have multi-button mouse with one button set as an Option-click. That's the button I click on Shutdown so I don't get the dialog box. If you have an Apple mouse just hold the Option key down when you click the Shutdown item.
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HELP!!!
Here are the specs of my machine:
2011 13.3" MacBook Pro
4 GB Ram/320 GB HD
For the past several months my MacBook Pro refuses to shut down or restart without holding down the power button. Whenever I choose to restart or shut down the computer, it will hang on a grey screen. I have even tried letting it hang for an hour, and it still won't shut down. I notice that once in a while it will retart or shut down correctly if I had not used opened iTunes since turning it on. However, even manually closing iTunes before shutting down or restarting does not solve the problem. It seems as though it only shuts down if iTunes was not used since restarting the computer. Is this a registry error? Do I need to reinstall iTunes? I noticed this problem began happening after I uninstalled Kaspersky Virus Scanner, could that be the problem as well? Also, I cannot guarantee that the problem is only associated with iTunes. I just noticed that one of the few times it shut down or restarted correctly, iTunes coincidentally had not been used. Also, this problem started happening while I was still using Lion and has continued despite upgrading to Mountain Lion.
Also, whenever I update my iPod through iTunes, it won't eject properly, and a transparent icon of the iPod displays on the screen even after I have removed it from the USB port. Furthermore, the iPod will only be recognized by iTunes and will only be updated the first time I plug it in. After removing it and plugging it back in, it won't recognize or update the device unless I shut down and restart the computer. I have the latest addition of iTunes. I also have two iPods, one 80 GB Classic, and one 8 GB Nano, and I have the same problem with both.
I have AppleCare. Should I take my macbook to the genius bar?
Applications I normally use are Word, Safari, FireFox, iTunes, FinalDraft, Photo Booth, Notes, Mail, App Store, etc. No real heavy lifting.
Any feedback would be very much appreciated. :-)
Thank you everyone!!I have this question too.
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After installing the latest version of IOS my iPhone 4s rapidly runs out of power, it also suddently (fully charged) shuts down and restarts without me asking for it. I tried to reinstall the latest version of IOS but it doesnt help. Any advice?
Backup and restore your software via iTunes. If the problem continues, restore as a NEW device. If this solves it, that means there is some corruption in your backup file. If the problem is still there, you should take it to the Genius Bar at an Apple Store for evaluation.
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My iBook G4 will not shut down or restart without force
I have huge issues with my 20 month old iBook. For the last two months it has been acting completely out of character.
The issue that's frying my head completely is the fact it won't shut down or restart by itself. I always have to hold the power button until it dies. When I start it up again, the screen is at minimum brightness every time, and I don't know why that would happen.
Not only that, but every program freezes at the one time at least 4 times a week (I use this thing every day). And, when one program stops responding, even force quitting doesn't close it, I have to force the whole system to shut down and restart to be able to use the program again.
I have never had any problems with this machine until two months ago. In fact, I had been boasting to my friends for the prior year and a half about how it had never crashed on me. Why is it starting now, and going all the way?
Would it have anything to do with a wireless router? Or an external hard drive? Right before all this crap started happening, I bought myself an external 80Gb hard drive because I was struggling to find space on this 27Gb internal hard drive. I was always running on 1-2Gb, and now I'm running on 8-9Gb of space. Around the same time, a housemate of mine talked me into sharing my internet connection with him via a wireless router. The router was connected to my iBook, and caused some speed problems, not with the internet but with my system. That project was abandoned after about a week because the housemate was never able to keep an online connection. And since then, my laptop's been screwed up.
I'd like to know reasons for why it's going screwey, and if I have to fork out stupid money to fix something that's supposed to be still working.correction its a macbook pro
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System shuts down and restarts without saving data
Hi, I've had my MacBook Pro for over 2.5yrs and have almost no issues with it until recently.
This morning when I sat down to work my system kept shutting down on its own every 25-30mins and would restart too. I keep losing all my data and kept having to start over. This has never happened before.
Pls help!
P.S.: I dont know if this info helps, but I just started using my new 85W MagSafe charger, since my old charger conked off recently. The charger seems like its original except I had to connect it to my old adapter since the new charger's head doesnt fit into any of my available switch boards. Oh and the left side of the laptop and (the box part of) the charger very quite hot when the system switched off.
I read in one of the Apple discussions that it maybe a hardware issue and to run a hardware diagnostic test at start up. But although i tried to run the test by pressing and holding 'D' key before the grey screen appears at startup, nothing seemed to happen and the system started up normally.It's possible that the new charger is defective or that the magsafe board in the computer itself is failing. You said your old charger failed, what made you think so?
The easiest thing to do is take both the MBP and the charger into the Genius Bar if you can. The eval is free. If it's the charger, they'll replace it. If not, at least they can tell you what the problem is. This is a genuine Apple charger, right? -
Shuts down and restarts without prompt - is my G5 haunted?
I got a new G5 about two months ago (woo hoo!) and LOVE IT.
But it started just shutting off on its own, without my prompt, like a ghost was in charge. It would start back up with no problem, and might go on with no problem, or it might immediately shut off again when I opened an application. It just turned off, like someone pulled the power plug. (I do have it on a surge protector, and no other devices on the strip powered off)
At first it seemed like it was ITunes that caused it, so I deleted the playlist, and then it got better...briefly. Sometimes I'd go a day with no problem, other times it would happen several times in a row.
I finally called support (still under the 90 day thing) and they had me reset the SMU button. That seemed to fix it for a couple of weeks, but now it's back. I eventually did the reset again, but it's still happening. Only now it shuts off, then about 15 seconds later it restarts on its own.
I was reading a thread here that said to check the system.log for a temp overheat, but there's nothing in the log like that. It seems to happen about 90 percent when I launch ITunes, and 10 percent just out of the blue. Not helpful when I'm working on something and haven't yet hit save.
And I have to confess that launching ITunes now causes me to cringe...
I'll call Apple Support today, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and what it might be. In all my years of Macs, I've never had a problem. I was just hoping the reset button would fix it, but it doesn't seem probable.
Power supply? Logic board? Casper the Ghost?
Julihi juli,
what g5 have you got. is it the new duel core models, if so the check the connections on the back of your hdd and the logic board. as these work loose very easily. what it sounds like as if the connection is just touching on the drive or logic board. i have the same problem with a s-ata drive, and the cable just slides off all the time. what seems to be happening is that when it disconnects the comp shuts down, and at the last second with the fans slowing the machine get a slight vibration just enough to connect again. and the comp must interpit the connection as a start-up. not sure about the start-up But possible. or it could be a kp, anyways check your connections.
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MBP not shutting down or restarting
Hello guys!
A few days ago, I came across a strange problem on my macbook pro: I wasn’t able to log out, restart or shut down using the apple menu, nor using the power button, which just won't respond.
When I try to restart, nothing just happens. No spinning wheel, nothing. The only way to restart is to use sudo reboot in the Terminal.
This problem started short after I installed a program called “FontForge”, but uninstalling it didn’t help, nor did recovering the system from an older Time Machine backup (from the time before I installed the FontForge).
Finaly I thought it could be something about the SMC and I reseted both it and the PRAM, but without any success. Then I did a re-installation of Mac OS X Lion using Lion recovery, but still no difference and now I’m beginning to feel quite clueless.
Although the problem isn’t life-threatening, it’s very annoying and I’d really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
(Just so you know, I’m running Mac OS X 10.7.3 on a MacBook Pro 13” mid 2010)There could be a couple of things going on here. First, I would start the cpu in recovery mode (cmd+R). Select disk utility and repair disk as well as repair permissions. After, I would start up in safe mode (hold shift) and then remove user library cache and sys library cache folders. Restart CPU, if should now shut down and restart without a hitch.
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When I try to open iPhoto I get a window dialog that says...
Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable
Shut down and restart your computer, and then open iPhoto again. If the problem persists, try rebuilding your photo library. To do this, quit iPhoto, and then reopen it while keeping the Option and Command keys pressed. You can also try restoring your photo library from a backup.
I have tried the reopen it while keeping the Option and Command keyes pressed.
No change.
I dee nothing but a blank page,
Any help would be appreciated.
Also hace back ups of all images on cd's. dvds and jump drives.
Any advice is appreciated.Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD -
macbook froze while online. hard shutdown. when it restarted, an error message appeared saying finder shut down unexpectedly containing a message box with a long list of technical jibberish. after clicking OK that it would send an error report to Apple, the same error message box appeared again and again every time OK was clicked. Now the macbook will not turn on at all
If you're able to boot, launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post "shutdownStall" or "hang" reports.
If you can't boot in the usual way, try a safe boot. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
During startup, you’ll see a progress bar, and then the login screen, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all.
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Why can I not restart or shut down my imac without using the power button?
why can I not restart or shut down my imac without using the power button?
Reset the SMC and then try a restart or shutdown from the drop down menus.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
Then if that doesn't work, backup because you have an OS X issue that will require either a repair or reinstall. -
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing the same issue of the screen freezing or suddenly enlarging. I'm having to shut down and restart as much as five or six times a day. This has been happening pretty regularly for the past week or more, but seems to be getting worse. Could it be the last software update?
Close all apps in Multi-Task Window.
1. Double tap the home button to bring up the multi-tasking view
2. Swipe the app's windows upwards to close
3. The app will fly off the screen -
IMac (Oct 2009) keeps shutting down and restarting when not being used.
At least once a day, usually when not being used, I will see a dialog box that say computer had to restart due to a problem. data in problem report does not clearly state problem - many multi-page entries
Have reinstalled OS 10.8.2 once
this morning tried to restart with safe boot and had spinning beach ball for more than 15 minutes. shut down and restarted nin recovery mode. verified and repaired permissions (all seem to be related to Canon Pronter plug-ins- had an error message yesteday asking if I wanted to repair printer software and I said yes). Printer seems to be working. Had one statement that indicated a screensaver issue-see below
a while back, iTunes album art screensaver hung up with just two album covers flipping in all rows and columns.
after a few restarts, it started working correctly again..- yesterday I set screen saver to never, but still had a crash this morningHere's the latest panic report. BTW, I ran for a while from an external system boot - very sloww (thumbdrive), but nothing happened. However, when I retarted I tried to restart in Safe Mode and the launch never completed (30 minutes without start)
Tue Jan 1 07:15:40 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8002443908): "zalloc: \"buf.8192\" (878 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:1826
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff800aafb2b0 : 0xffffff800241d626
0xffffff800aafb320 : 0xffffff8002443908
0xffffff800aafb400 : 0xffffff80024de8d8
0xffffff800aafb450 : 0xffffff80024de395
0xffffff800aafb500 : 0xffffff80024dd64b
0xffffff800aafb530 : 0xffffff80024dd7f7
0xffffff800aafb550 : 0xffffff80026e7766
0xffffff800aafb5c0 : 0xffffff800272024c
0xffffff800aafb5e0 : 0xffffff8002721314
0xffffff800aafb680 : 0xffffff800271d2a0
0xffffff800aafb790 : 0xffffff800271959c
0xffffff800aafb840 : 0xffffff800271936a
0xffffff800aafb8c0 : 0xffffff80025137df
0xffffff800aafb910 : 0xffffff8002509fe1
0xffffff800aafb950 : 0xffffff800252685c
0xffffff800aafba00 : 0xffffff8002526679
0xffffff800aafba30 : 0xffffff8002712518
0xffffff800aafbaa0 : 0xffffff8002511c46
0xffffff800aafbae0 : 0xffffff800250936c
0xffffff800aafbb90 : 0xffffff80024fbb49
0xffffff800aafbc40 : 0xffffff80024fc314
0xffffff800aafbf50 : 0xffffff80027e182a
0xffffff800aafbfb0 : 0xffffff80024ced33
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker
Mac OS version:
12C60
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel slide: 0x0000000002200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8002400000
System model name: iMac10,1 (Mac-F2268DC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 39390380895329
vm objects:17562048
vm object hash entri:2264400
VM map entries:6216720
pv_list:19034112
vm pages:74043792
kalloc.32:1826816
kalloc.64:170766336
kalloc.128:649785344
kalloc.256:648183808
kalloc.512:2285568
kalloc.1024:2637824
kalloc.4096:2387968
kalloc.8192:3989504
ipc ports:2168672
threads:1166880
vnodes:16507128
namecache:6952320
HFS node:21840864
HFS fork:6352896
decmpfs_cnode:2244312
buf.8192:7192576
ubc_info zone:3559464
vnode pager structur:1978800
Kernel Stacks:1982464
PageTables:44011520
Kalloc.Large:12347186
Backtrace suspected of leaking: (outstanding bytes: 236544)
0xffffff80024435b9
0xffffff80024245ed
0xffffff80027ee1bd
0xffffff80028507f7
0xffffff800285075b
0xffffff7f82b6b1ac
0xffffff7f82b72922
0xffffff7f82ab138b
0xffffff7f82ab49b0
0xffffff7f829f843c
0xffffff800243dcde
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.5.1)[4CCC048B-060B-3C07-8D85-A8 4CEA02CD25]@0xffffff7f829f2000->0xffffff7f82a1cfff
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.5.1)[E4EAAA05-F607-3299-AE72-998D19 A5EA17]@0xffffff7f82aae000->0xffffff7f82ac3fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.5.1)[4CCC048B-060B-3C07-8D85-A8 4CEA02CD25]@0xffffff7f829f2000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.8)[5BA4CD36-E96D-3A9E-ADFF-A863BBD63BC7]@0xff ffff7f8297c000
com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore(5.2.2)[F1208D07-4D35-0191-3638-3D7CA8C9D5CF ]@0xffffff7f82b69000->0xffffff7f82ba1fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.4.0)[C3094550-7F58-3933-A4F7-CD33AE83F8B9]@0xffff ff7f82a4c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.5.1)[E4EAAA05-F607-3299-AE72-998D19 A5EA17]@0xffffff7f82aae000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.8)[5BA4CD36-E96D-3A9E-ADFF-A863BBD63BC7]@0xff ffff7f8297c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.5.1)[4CCC048B-060B-3C07-8D85-A8 4CEA02CD25]@0xffffff7f829f2000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2(4.2.0)[2B060BAD-9A9B-3A52-A742-A37CDFC59570]@0xf fffff7f82b4b000
last loaded kext at 1223700924328: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f84440000, size 16384)
last unloaded kext at 1481342745694: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f84440000, size 12288)
loaded kexts:
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com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
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MacBook will not Shut Down or Restart
My MacBook will not shut down or restart from the apple menu, nor from any other dialog box that pops up, after an update, for instance. The only way I can turn it off/restart is by using the power button. I have tried archiving and installing OS X, but I am still having this problem. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Hi Henry,
Help here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
Second, make sure you have all your updates. Click the Apple logo in the Menu then click Software Updates.
Reset PRAM by holding option-command-P-R keys down during startup until you hear the chime at least three or four times.
Resetting the PRAM is a standard procedure for the problem you are experiencing.
Also, run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions. DU is located here:
Applications/Utilities. Launch DU, select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, then click Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU and reboot.
If you need further assistance, please post back.
Carolyn -
When starting SQL Server 2008 R2 it hangs , and I cannot exit...so when trying to logoff to reset I get the following "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is active. Close the active dialog and try again"Any
ideas?Big edit...
I have 2008 R2 SP2 installed on my Windows 7 Machine which is also fully updated. The marked answer above is clearly not the solution.
The fix I had posted before did not work. It appeared to work temporarily, but now I am back to the same invisible dialogue. I have not been able to identify any pattern by which this is triggered. I can have an entire day without this
issue and then it appears the next.
The invisible modal dialogue is definitely the connection dialogue. The only way out is to hit the escape key to close it, but then I am no better off without an ability to connect to a server. The dialogue is still invisible when I re-open it.
However, even as I type this post, I have just gotten the dialogue to appear after restarting Management Studio, hitting escape, then clicking connect again. That same pattern failed just minutes ago numerous times. Again, I can't find any pattern.
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Why is my macbook pro randomly shutting down and restarting?
My macbook pro is randomly shutting down and restarting. It started a couple days ago and seems to happen completely randomly. I did a extended hardware test and no problems were found. I reset the SMC and that didn’t work. Battery is charged and I don’t think its overheating. Im using Mavericks 10.9.1. Someone please help because I can’t even use my mac for anything lately and its really annoying.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time after you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post any other kind of report — it will be very long and not helpful.
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