It is slowing my 25" imac 10.6 Snow leopard down. Please, What is it and how to get rid of.
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what happens if you Right Click or Left click on the icon?
Any indication as to what it is?
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Any indication as to what it is?
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Clicking does nothing except turn to the colored disk. Anyidea how can I find ALL the programs that are running?
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in the Applications > Utilities folder
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Or, as I'm trying to train myself to do... Hit Command+Space Bar to pull up the Spotlight box, and just start typing in "Activity Monitor". Those of us who've been using Mac OS X pre-10.4 where Spotlight came into being, still tend to not use it to it's fullest potential, but others may not have their skills so set in years of tradition.
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Suddenly it's gone! Notice the GM TM backup disk notlit. Plug not quite in. Could be solution? One happy Geriatric don't have togo bug hunting like with PC's / windows 3.1. Thanks for the Activity monitor check, etc Any other handy hints?
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Bugger It's back. Any ideas???
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Try safe boot, which will basically tell us whether it's a program you added or not. Reboot the system, and hold down the shift key until you see the Apple logo.
If you don't see the icon on the menu bar, then it's something you added. So reboot, go to system preferences, accounts, your account, then login items. First look to see if anything listed has the same icon, and if it does, uncheck that. Otherwise, assuming there's more in there than just some iTunesHelper thing, uncheck each item and reboot. If the icon disappears, go back and check ONE item, then reboot. Rinse and repeat until the icon shows back up, and whatever the last thing it was that you checked, will be the problem program.
If you don't see the icon on the menu bar, then it's something you added. So reboot, go to system preferences, accounts, your account, then login items. First look to see if anything listed has the same icon, and if it does, uncheck that. Otherwise, assuming there's more in there than just some iTunesHelper thing, uncheck each item and reboot. If the icon disappears, go back and check ONE item, then reboot. Rinse and repeat until the icon shows back up, and whatever the last thing it was that you checked, will be the problem program.
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Done that and found a program in the "login items" I had removed, How did it get passed the lockout?? Not flashing at the moment hopefully got for ever. BFN
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