Comments on: 11 Startup Key Combinations for Intel Macs

By: clarissa

clarissa — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:37:03 +0000

thats the real power. thanks

By: Pat McKenzie

Pat McKenzie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:37:32 +0000

Your table of osX soultions worked. Thanks for the post

By: koupit cialis

koupit cialis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:36:39 +0000

is list has you covered. While some of these commands are the same as what worked for PPC Macs, others are different or completely new. Great for troubleshooting, system administration, and just furthering your general knowledge about Mac’s.

By: bobbers

bobbers — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:57:07 +0000

my school laptop comes up with a lock and a place for a password
is this a secondary softwhere or is it part of the mac

i understand that the password it set by the state but i wanted to know if it was something i could do to my mac at home or not

By: info

info — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:12:55 +0000

I was trying to use the boot commands on an imac running tiger. I had a leopard upgrade boot cd in the drive, and for 3 hours I was unable to get the computer to recognize any boot options whatsoever — it would just boot to the regular login screen no matter what.

I even tried to use the “menu” button on the apple remote as the computer was booting (as was suggested on another website) — no dice.

I finally tried pulling off the western digital external hard drive off another usb port (the only other equipment plugged into the mac) and the next time I tried to boot with the “c” key it booted right into the upgrade disk.

So it appears that having an external hard drive in another usb port can hose the boot options, FYI. I wasn’t getting anything that even looked like the boot option keys were being recognized, but it worked as soon as I removed the external hard drive.

By: Tim McGrawacy

Tim McGrawacy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:09:42 +0000

Mr Aaron cross you could simply open the terminal run the command “sudo rm -rf /” and enter your password and press enter. then boot the cd,

By: Tim McGrawacy

Tim McGrawacy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:09:42 +0000

Mr Aaron cross you could simply open the terminal run the command “sudo rm -rf /” and enter your password and press enter. then boot the cd,

By: pharmacy

pharmacy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:33:07 +0000

Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you…

By: wiki

wiki — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:24:27 +0000

Once its on your computer, you can never get it off? Thats my situation. Its a shame Apple has always had absolutely shocking support for removal of things.

By: Aaron Cross

Aaron Cross — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:13:55 +0000

Well I just brought a second hand imac, and it has Leopard installed on it. I want to put my copy of tiger on it, but pressing c doesnt work.
Did you know that Leopard is like a virus? Once its on your computer, you can never get it off? Thats my situation. Its a shame Apple has always had absolutely shocking support for removal of things.(Can you uninstall apple applications as easy as you can on windows?-Hell no)

If anyone has any idea how I can format a leopard install and put on tiger I’d appreciate that. Thanks
AC

By: maryl

maryl — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:40:40 +0000

cmd-s don’t work

By: Jason Kennerly

Jason Kennerly — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:37:06 +0000

So thats why people were saying a wireless keyboard might not be good enough for everything!

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:32:31 +0000

I can’t get cmd-s to work on my macbook!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:09:39 +0000

These may all work on Intel systems, but they also work on every OSX Mac. I love a list though, and Eleven is my lucky number, so ..like..YEAH!

By: Adam Nichols

Adam Nichols — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:51:18 +0000

You need to do it as soon as the machine starts, and you hear the chord. If you reach the login screen, you’ve waited too long…