Newbie Help

[LyonAdmiral]

Hello All:

This is my first Mac in a long time. My previous Mac is a Macintosh SE. And I know those of you die hards know how old that is.

I do Windows at work, it's all we do, and because of it, I've had nothing but Dell equipment, lot's of it. I purchased a Mac mini this month and am somewhat happy with it, the graphics leaves some to be desired but for a 499 Mac, what can I ask for?

Anyway, the two concerns I have, and are software based. I use on my Windows machines a program called Alcohol 120%. Is there any similar type program for Mac so that I can use my program discs on the Mac without having to put in in.

The second concern is dial-up and user switching. Unlike XP, I've discovered that when my wife switches from me, the dial-up connection terminates and has to dial again. Is there any way to prevent that?

Thanks!
Dan

 

[homerjward]

Hello All:

This is my first Mac in a long time. My previous Mac is a Macintosh SE. And I know those of you die hards know how old that is.

I do Windows at work, it's all we do, and because of it, I've had nothing but Dell equipment, lot's of it. I purchased a Mac mini this month and am somewhat happy with it, the graphics leaves some to be desired but for a 499 Mac, what can I ask for?

Anyway, the two concerns I have, and are software based. I use on my Windows machines a program called Alcohol 120%. Is there any similar type program for Mac so that I can use my program discs on the Mac without having to put in in.

The second concern is dial-up and user switching. Unlike XP, I've discovered that when my wife switches from me, the dial-up connection terminates and has to dial again. Is there any way to prevent that?

Thanks!
Dan

if you want to make an image of a cd on the hard drive like with alcohol 120, you can do that easily in disk utility (in the utilities section of your applications folder) no idea about the dial-up issue since ive had broadband ever since i switched. sorry.

 

[SFVCyclone]

OR if you press option and drag the cd into a folder or even just the desktop it will copy there. i think Toast can do a duplicate copy or .image of the cd.

 

[arogge]

Network | Show: <Modem> | PPP | PPP Options... | Disconnect when switching user accounts

 

[CanadaRAM]

Welcome back to Mac and welcome to MacRumors, where you are guaranteed to get opinions, sarcasm, occasional humor and a suprisingly large percentage of useful help from this loose band of corsairs and brigands.

When posting a question, it is well to make the title descriptive of the problem... instead of "Help Me!" try "How to copy program CDs to hard drive?" or some such.

Also, you are lucky that someone quickly identified the Windows program named and what it is intended to do. Best to also describe the desired results in a bit more detail, giving specific examples.

 

[neocell]

Hello All:

This is my first Mac in a long time. My previous Mac is a Macintosh SE. And I know those of you die hards know how old that is.

I do Windows at work, it's all we do, and because of it, I've had nothing but Dell equipment, lot's of it. I purchased a Mac mini this month and am somewhat happy with it, the graphics leaves some to be desired but for a 499 Mac, what can I ask for?

Anyway, the two concerns I have, and are software based. I use on my Windows machines a program called Alcohol 120%. Is there any similar type program for Mac so that I can use my program discs on the Mac without having to put in in.

The second concern is dial-up and user switching. Unlike XP, I've discovered that when my wife switches from me, the dial-up connection terminates and has to dial again. Is there any way to prevent that?

Thanks!
Dan

As to your second point: click on 'System Preferences' then 'Network' then under the 'Show' bar select 'Internal Modem'. On the next window make sure PPP is highlighted and at the bottom click on 'PPP options' you should get a window entitled 'Session Options' and 'Advanced Options'. In the Session Options list there's a box to check for 'Disconnect when switching user accounts'. Obviously, make sure it's not selected