> From: Alain RAZAKARIVONY <razakar2 at etu.unige.ch> > Subject: [P1] how to speed up more os X > > I bought a new ibook 700Mhz one month ago. It works fine. > But it was too slow so today I bought a 256 Ram. > > Now, is there any way to speed up more OS X (on windows you can setup > start-up programs) ? > I'm not sure what you are trying to tell us here. You can set which programs you'd like to start-up automatically on login in OS X as well, but that has nothing to do with the speed of the machine. Personally, I put the machine to sleep and wake it up, so start-up is always <1 second or so. > And how to remove software ? (on windows you have uninstaller and > add/remove programs) ? > Just drag the program folder to the trash. That's it. Welcome to Macintosh. (there might be a tiny (4-12K) preference file or something like that left behind, but you can ignore it -- it will NOT affect anything else once the main program is gone). > Can a remove os 9 ? (I have MAC os 10.2.4) because it takes too much > disk space. > You can if you really want to. Simply drag the OS 9 System Folder (it is called "System Folder" and has a 9 on the outside of the folder -- don't trash other OTHER one called "System"!) and the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder to the trash. Oh, and the Desktop (Mac OS 9) folder too. Voila, done. I don't recommend this, because a) there might be some classic-only programs you find that you want to run for a while yet, and b) these are probably taking up less than 2GB of your hard drive. Seems a small price to pay for so much backward compatibility, but it's also true that as a recent switcher you might not need that. Your call. > I am a switcher , if any one can help me. ;-) I hope that helps, and welcome to the community! _Chas_ Atheist having orgasm: "Oh Random! Oh CHANCE!!"