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Now that I learned more on how to find things you referanced to bobw I finly found what you directed me to. It worked thank you for the help it worked perfectly. One day I hope to be one taht is able to give help here instead of always asking for it ...lol Thank you both for your replys to my...

Thank you BOBW but I was unable to find specific referances to those proggies starting from with in startup foler you directed me to, but still looking.

Firefox, Yahoo Messenger and that darn AOHell messenger I have to have for work. I looked thru preferances ... that did no good.

How do I stop programs from loading on startup. I have looked in the preferances to no avail. I know there has to be a way being a newby to mac. I can do msconfig in windows Run to get to startup items on a PC. Is there a simular way on my IMac to stop startup items as well?

Yes, I want to format the drive so I can use it on my IMac to save photographs and music files. It was formated NTSF so my I Mac will not let me drag it into the window to be formatted / erased.

I have a portable drive (usb connected) that was formatted for windows xp and I cant seem to load it to be able to get a format on the disk. (IMac sees the drive and recognizes it) Is there a way around this problem? I have read what I have found and they seem to all talk about if it is a fixed...

Thank You both. I have a lot to learn... Small steps I guess.

is there a way to add the same artist name to several lines (tracks) at once instead of adding the artist one line at a time?

Thank you, for the reply. Every day gives me more reason to ask myself why I had not purchased a Mac long ago.

Being a Newby crossing over from Windows to Mac (best move I ever made) is great, except for the basic questions that arise. Can you tell me how to properly uninstall a softare package from my imac. IMAC is running Tiger I am use to uninstalling then going and searching out any DLL and then...

Thank you I wil go try your suggestion.

Ok I admit it, I am a complete OSX Tiger / Mac Newby. Now thats out the way. lol. I have a iMac intel duo running OSX Tiger and wanted to install Open Office. It installed fine but whenI try to open it it tells me I need X11 and when i tried to install X11 it says I have a newer version alrady...