IMac Hanging

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JSMac2008

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I am running the following system:

Apple Macintosh (Intel)
MODEL iMAC
PROC 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM 1 GB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM
DRIVE 300 GB

The hanging appears to have been caused when I accidently moved about 40GB of old photo's onto my desktop. Almost immediately I tried to cancel but all that happened is that the system has hung. Processer can be heard working in the background.

Being new to MAC I am pretty stumped.

Have tried the obvious forced restart using the power on/off button but no luck.

Is there a way I can get in and stop this process say at start up?

Thanks
 
Well to stop something starting up is to go to System Preferences(in your Dock)->Accounts, Login Items.
 
Hi JSMac 2008,

I am new to Macs also and have been very happy since changing over from windows in Feb 09. Then a couple of days ago I experienced the same problem as yourself whilst deleting a 110Gb file from an external drive it started to copy onto the desktop and I then had the issue of slow response, also applications hanging and hotmail not deleting messages when selected etc.
I phoned the apple help line and found out that I had two days left on my 3 month free support. The guy was a helpful sort and suggested doing a disk repair which I tried but to no avail. I was going to do a rebuild of the disk but tried doing a system restore first from a backup point I have on my external drive. Hey presto problem solved I just went back a week on the time machine back up. I realise this will be no use if you do not have this option available but if you do have an external drive connected and it is making auto restore points on it then try that one. Hope this helps....
 
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