<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Paul Simpson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">My wife got an older MAC from our daughter when she bought a new one. She has been using it for a few years and recently got the above mentioned message. I have used IBM PCs with windows all my life and know very little about MACS. Need some help on how to deal with this problem. Suspect its related to too many programs starting when PC is turned on.</span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Your "Startup Disk" is the hard drive in your computer that has all of your programs and files stored on it. If its almost full, that means there may not be enough space on it to store any more files (text documents, pictures, music files...). 20 gigs is tiny by today's standards. Some programs even use part of the hard drive to temporarily store information and won't run properly if the drive is full.</div><div><br></div><div>The cheapest solution is to delete any files on the hard drive that you no longer need or want. The other alternatives involve either replacing the hard drive in the computer with a bigger one, or buying an external storage device of some kind. You can get replacement hard drives that hold 100's of gigabytes for $50-100. External solutions cost a bit more, but you they can continue to be used if you ever upgrade to a different computer. If you decide to go the upgrade or external storage route, send another message to the list. There are usually people reading who know where the good deals of the day can be found.</div><div><br></div><div>-Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>