My iMac is one of the original 233hrz Rev. A Bondi Blue, with a NewerTechnologies 433 CPU, max amt. of ram, and OS 8.6.1 I did get it to shut down, and when I restarted it threw away the finder preferences, stating that they were corrupted. and I was able to start up with the extensions off, and then shut down normally. Since the Finder preferences were redone, Couldn't I also trash the System preferences, and the Macintosh HD preferences, and then restart, to see if that would help. I know that they are rewritten when they are in the trash(that has not been emptied). I learned that in a Troubleshooting the Macintosh class, where the finder preferences are trashed first. I didn't think of it, the iMac did it for me. So since the Finder preferences were corrupted, then rewritten at the time of start up with the shift key pressed down. Now, everytime I go to start up, the imac gets stuck. I can see the progress bar, but it gets stuck around 15% of the way every time (not holding down the shift key). How do I remedy this problem and get my imac to start up properly? June On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 07:20 AM, JM wrote: > just restart from your original system CD that came with the iMac and > run Disk First Aid > > If that doesn't help, buy a copy of Norton Utilities or Tech Tools or > Drive 10 or whatever and use that to correct your problems. > > You didn't give us any specs on your iMac and OS. Please do so. It > sounds like OS 9. If so do a clean install of your system if all else > fails. > > good luck > > > Juan