Couple of questions

[Debbi Young]

I asked a question about my computer freezing when shutting down IE about a
week ago. I've repeated it here, as I didn't get any responses.

I also am trying to startup from my Norton Utilities CD in order to optimize
my hard drive. I have been unable to accomplish this by either restarting
and holding down the "c" letter key or by changing the startup disk using
the control panel. The startup process freezes after about a minute.

Is there another way to optimize without starting up from the CD?

Thanks for any help you can give me to improve the performance of my iMac.

Debbi

on 3/22/04 3:32 PM, Debbi Young at djy at citynet.net wrote:

> I have a 400MHz G3 with 320 megs of RAM, running OS9.2.2. Normally the
> machine is on 24/7, and I use it mostly for the internet and e-mail. I've
> been doing a little graphic design work lately, and have shut down both
> Outlook Express and Internet Explorer while working with Photoshop and/or
> Quark, and have been experiencing freezes when shutting down IE.
> 
> I first tried discarding the IE preference file. That didn't solve the
> problem.
> 
> I downloaded and installed the latest version of IE for Mac 9.X (version
> 5.1.7). Still no improvement.
> 
> And now when I launch IE I get a message that the preferences have been
> damaged, and are being reverted to the last saved version. Not a big deal,
> but a nuisance just the same.
> 
> I probably need to uninstall something (I trashed the previous version of
> IE). There are duplicate files in three different Internet folders in my
> Applications. This not only takes up space but may be contributing to my
> freeze-on-shutdown problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Debbi