Help, My G4 Is Acting Very Strangely

Hi, Something very weird is happing to my G4 Tower lately because each time I restart it, something has changed....... for no reason. Eg: the wallpaper and screen savers disappeared; my Entourage email suddenly began reproducing new Main Identity pages at a rate of 1 per second and wouldn't allow me to access any of them; and all of my Dashboard items have been changed. Can anyone work-out what is going on and/or what the cure is? Many thanks

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Try creating a new user account and logging in with that. If that works, it's a user-level issue, just grab your files from the other user and trash it. If not, well, time to find your OS X disc

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Sounds like the user directory is out of whack. The problems you listed aren't system anomalies. Try ethergeek's suggestion. If it doesn't work, please feel free to reply!

xboxrulz

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Creating a new user account usually fixes these type of problems. This one had a problem with the dock crashing on start up...creating a new user account and trashing the old one worked.

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Many thanks to all of you for your advice. It is much appreciated and, no doubt I will be back again soon seeking your help.

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here's what you should do.
-open up a new finder window
-navigate to wherever your applications are saved usually your applications folder....
-open up utilites and then navigate to disk utitility
-click on the disk that you're using and then press repair permissions then reboot and see what happens
-believe it or not this is a fix for alot of things surrounding macs

if that does'nt work
-have you installed any new apps lateley?
-any new .kexts?
-any intel only parts
-has someone else used your computer?
-did your computer come in contact with a magnet?
-is your computer used as a server or in a public place?
-are you prepared to format your hard drive if nessescary?
-did you get any new peripherals?
-hardware?
-any parts on the inside or outside of your computer?
-spill something on your computer?
-cause physical trauma to the computer itself eg. dropping , kicking , punching , throwing , hitting biting , throwing things at the case , making it fall , pushing it around etc.
-have you moved homes recently?
-do you have kids?

if you ask yourself those questions above i'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.

 

 

 

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