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I can answer most questions on the Mac OS from version 4 to 10.5. I have particular strengths with AppleScript.

Experience in the area

19 years working with Macs including 5 years at Apple (1991-1996)

Education/Credentials

Bachelors degrees in Computing, Maths and Business, Masters in Computing

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Recent Answers from Steve Thompson

2009-10-22 MAC 9.2 to OSX:

Under the Apple Menu there's a thing called "Control Panels". In there, there's a control panel called Start Up Disk. You'll be able to chose the startup disk there. Additionally, if your restart the machine

2009-09-28 Macbook OS X Password:

I've got a way that might work but I've never tried it so apologies if it doesn't - if it doesn't you'll need the CD Reboot your mac and hold down 'S'. This will boot the machine in to Single User mode

2009-09-18 Entourage:

Bill, Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. AllExperts either didn't send me an email or I didn't notice it! Aplogies either way :-) You need to rebuild the Entourage Identities Database

2009-07-21 iMac 10.1.2:

Hi, If he has the administrator password for the machine and he's been able to put the files in the trash: 1. Open the application called "Terminal" located in Applications > Utilities 2. Type cd

2009-07-08 Windows OS:

Do you mean "join the windows OS to a domain"? If so, it depends on how you have the dual OS set up. If it's BootCamp, just do it in the same way as you would on normal windows. If it's Parallels or

 

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