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Hi. I have an old iBook G4 15". It was running painfully slow when I turned it on after being on vacation for two weeks. The System Profiler shows only 256MB of built-in RAM. I had the max extended RAM (1GB?), but it's not showing (DIMM1/j31 shows as "empty"). What could have happened...

Hi. My backup program created a backup volume on the hard drive it is supposed to backup, doubling my harddrive's size. It did this before (why, I'm not sure, but I deal with that issue later). I found the file (Volume) with WhatSize. but WhatSize freezes when I try to move it to the...

Hi. For months I've been using a little less than half of my 60Gig Hard drive. Suddenly today I noticed I have only 6Gigs available, using 50 Gigs. When I go folder by folder and add up the size of the contents I get roughly 22 Gigs. Anybody have ideas? Thanks. --Dare

Hi. I installed a program a couple weeks ago. When I was done, I had an Applications folder in my Home folder that contained only the new program. The proper Applications folder existed in my hard drive, and that was the same one represented in Finder windows on the lefthand side. But the...

Hi. I just learned I have to install Virtual PC to run a program I must use on my IBook G4 for work. Are there any freeware programs out there that do the same thing as Virtual PC?

Hi. My operating system (OSX 10.3.9) is misassociating certain Pro Tool 6.4 files with Excel and VLC Media Player. An example of the files I've found so far are as follows: /TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.DS_Data [mis-associated with Excel] /TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.DS_Data...

Hi. I've been using the free Iomega Automatic Backup program that came with my external HD, and I'm wondering if there's another free program out there that's a little more stable? Also, would someone please give me a list of the system folders that are critical for a backup? Right now I...

Within the last few days my iBook G4 (1 1/2 years old) is suddenly taking a very long time booting up. Takes about 5 minutes to pass the gray-scale apple screen. Then last night it hung opening Photoshop. I rebooted, zapped the pram, but the problem persisted. Hung again in Photoshop, so I...