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Disable warning: “There is a user sharing this computer.”
I have a Mac used as a test server and it restarts daily automatically. Occasionally we connect to it to grab files, but if we forget to disconnect, the Mac fails to restart because it waits for ...
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Your computer can't be shut down now, because software is being installed
I was trying to install Microsoft Office 2011 when the installer hanged (and it is not going anywhere, I waited about 12 hours before trying to reboot this macbook). Now I can't restart this macbook ...
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How to check what is preventing MBP from graceful shutdown/restart and fix it? [Now with log entries]
And hopefully really final edit: After upgrading to Mountain Lion, the issue seems fixed, hopefully permanently.
Final Edit: The problem doesn't happen all the time, sometimes I have to wait several ...
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Turning off or restarting iPhone if lock button is broken?
Now that I know how to lock the iPhone if the lock button is broken, I was wondering how I can restart the phone or turn it off.
The lock button is completely unresponsive and holding it down does ...
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Is there a better way to shutdown/restart OSX?
Whenever I want to shutdown/restart OSX I click on the menu, select shutdown, and then click the box for not saving the session, and then click OK. Then there's always at least one program that ...
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27" iMac (fall of 2010) won't shut down
Whenever I try to shut down my iMac (3.2 GHz Intel Core i3, running 10.7.3), it closes out all programs, goes to the gray screen with the spinning ball and just hangs there. This occurs in restart or ...
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Uncheck “Reopen windows when logging back in” by default
The shutdown/restart dialog has a check-box Reopen windows when logging back in which is checked by default. I need to change its behavior to be unchecked by default. Is this possible? If yes, how can ...
