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    Startup boots to gray screen. What to do next?

    I've trolled this forum and many others for potential solutions, all unsuccessful. My machine is a 15" 2011 MBP (Core i7, 16 GB RAM) running El Capitan. I was in the middle of a session when my computer spontaneously went to a gray screen. I initially suspected hardware problem. After rebooting...
  2. KevinWhite

    Project Planning has never be so EASY

    Available at App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1071586133 FREE TRIAL is at http://QuickPlan.xyz/Trial Quick Start Guide: http://www.quickplan.xyz/documents/quickplan-for-mac/quickstart/ App Site: http://www.quickplan.xyz/apps/quickplan-for-mac/ News: QuickPlan for macOS now supports the...
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    Will honestly pay for help!

    Hi, I will honestly pay anyone who can help me with my Macbook Pro issue. When I turn on my mac, it turns of by itself during start up. After googling the issue, I started the mac while holding down the "fn" button. As long as I held down the "fn" while logging on to my computer it worked, but...
  4. B

    Universal Blix - a simple way to discover parties and other special events going on nearby

    Want to find out what’s going on nearby? Throwing a block party and need to get the word out about it? Blix is a free, simple way to discover what’s going on nearby, like parties, protests, and food trucks. Share photos with everyone within a few miles - not just your friends. Blix is great...
  5. Laisha

    Adobe & Automatic Startups

    I -- ill-advisedly -- signed up to "lease" Adobe Photoshop a few months ago. I rarely use it, but when I do, I use it a lot. But that's not pertinent. Here's the problem: I only have 8 gigs, and Adobe now uses most of that every time I boot the computer up. About half of them can be force...
  6. lolo133t

    Resolved Only One Option For Login

    Hello. I have two accounts on my mac. Both are administrators. But for some reason, only one (the least used one) is an option for login when the mac is first started up. Once I log into the one account then log off, they're both present. But why is only one of the accounts a login option when...
  7. Kjmlynar

    MacBook Pro will not boot following crash while watching video.

    Hi everyone! I am at the point with my MacBook where it will not boot, no matter what I try. Early 2011 MacBook Pro. Background: One year ago, I spilled liquid in the keyboard. It acted weird at first, and then went back to normal, although the left shift no longer works. I have always had...
  8. J

    Help - OSX El Capitan - iCloud won't login & Other Issues

    Probably Best off to start with the background to the issue. - Mac Mini Late 2012 was behaving oddly(explained below) in El Capitan so I have: Reinstalled El Capitan - Completed Successfully Done a Disk First Aid - Completed Successfully (No Problems) Now El Capitan is reinstalled when I log...
  9. JacksonCraig94

    CAPS Lock Startup Password issue/bug?

    Hey guys! I'm just wondering why my Macbook Pro caps lock goes all buggy when entering my password on start up. When the caps lock button shows green it's actually showing on the screen as its off. When the caps lock button is not lit up green it's showing on the screen as caps locks is on. It's...
  10. BrandonJ

    Control Startup Items in El Capitan

    Hi there, I can see in activity monitor that there are a lot of things being loaded at startup and when my laptop was recently at the apple store for a repair, they said the same and that I should clean that up. I have gone into system preferences, users & groups, Login items, and there was...
  11. rsdotscot

    2009 Macmini3,1 startup problems

    Hi folks, For a while now my brother's 2009 Mac Mini has run into problems during startup. It takes forever to get past the Apple logo, and then it has trouble finding his BT keyboard. He's confirmed that he has everything important on an external drive so we determined the best course of...