Written on October 22, 2010 by Louisville Geek
This list of special key combinations has been compiled for your information. We cannot always verify the information so if there is an error please let me know. I have not included special Finder keys or standard CMD-SHIFT-# shortcuts because Apple has done such a good job of documenting them in the Finder Help.
Apple Boot Key Combos:
Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE
Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C
Force the internal hard drive to be the boot drive .... D
Boot from a specific SCSI ID #.(#=SCSI ID number)...... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE-#
Zap PRAM .............................................. CMD-OPT-P-R
Boot into open Firmware ............................... CMD-OPT-O-F
Clear NV RAM. Similar to reset-all in open Firmware ... CMD-OPT-N-V
Disable Extensions .................................... SHIFT
Rebuild Desktop ....................................... CMD-OPT
Close finder windows.(hold just before finder starts).. OPT
Boot with Virtual Memory off........................... CMD
Trigger extension manager at boot-up................... SPACE
Force Quadra av machines to use TV as a monitor........ CMD-OPT-T-V
Boot from ROM (Mac Classic only)....................... CMD-OPT-X-O
Force PowerBooks to reset the screen................... R
Force an AV monitor to be recognized as one............ CMD-OPT-A-V
Eject Boot Floppy...................................... Hold Down Mouse Button
Select volume to start from............................ OPT
Start in Firewire target drive mode.................... T
Startup in OSX if OS9 and OXS in boot partition........ X or CMD-X
Attempt to boot from network server ................... N
(Hold until Mac Logo appears)
Hold down until the 2nd chime, will boot into 9?....... CMD-OPT
OSX: Watch the status of the system load............... CMD-V
OSX: Enter single-user mode (shell-level mode)......... CMD-S
After startup:
Bring up dialogue for shutdown/sleep/restart........... POWER
Eject a Floppy Disk.................................... CMD-SHIFT-1 or(2) or (0)
Force current app to quit.............................. CMD-OPT-ESC
Unconditionally reboot................................. CTRL-CMD-POWER
Fast Shutdown.......................................... CTRL-CMD-OPT-POWER
Goto the debugger (if MacsBug is installed)............ CMD-POWER
Reset Power Manager on PowerBooks...................... USE THIS LINK
Put late model PowerBooks & Desktops to sleep.......... CMD-OPT-POWER
Application Specific Keys:
Startup key combos to reset the resolution on video boards:
SuperMac (at least some models)press&hold.............. OPT
Imagine 128 Card (reset resolution).................... N
RasterOps (at least some models)press&hold............. CMD-OPT-SHIFT
Radius (Use cable sense pins to set resolution)........ U
Radius (Cycle through available resolutions)........... T
Conflict Catcher:
Pause Boot........................................... P
Launch CC at Startup................................. SPACE or CAPS LOCK
Skip remaining extensions............................ CMD-PERIOD
Reboot cleanly while loading extensions.............. CMD-R
RAM Doubler:
Disable at Startup................................... ~ (Tilde) or ESC
Apple System Installer:
Change custom install to clean install............... CMD-Shift-K
Claris Emailer:
Bypass specified startup connections................. Hold CMD at launch
Bring up rebuild options............................. Hold OPT at launch
Controlling the Post-Startup Environment
Most Macintosh users know about holding the
Shift key down to prevent extensions from loading, but there are numerous startup modifiers that affect the state of the system after the boot process finishes.
* Shift causes the Mac to boot without extensions, which is useful for troubleshooting extension conflicts. If you hold down Shift after all the extensions have loaded but before the Finder launches, it also prevents any startup items from launching.
* Spacebar launches Apple’s Extensions Manager early in the startup process so you can enable or disable extensions before they load. Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher, if you’re using it instead of Extensions Manager, also launches if it sees you holding down the spacebar, or, optionally, if Caps Lock is activated. Conflict Catcher also adds the capability to configure additional startup keys as ways of specifying that a particular startup set should be used. Choose Edit Sets from the Sets menu, select a set in the resulting dialog and click Modify. In the sub-dialog that appears, you can specify a startup key and check the checkbox to make it effective.
* Option, if held down as the Finder launches, closes any previously open Finder windows. On stock older Macs, holding down Option does nothing at startup by default, although some extensions may deactivate if Option is held down when they attempt to load; see below for Option’s effect on new Macs and Macs with Zip drives.
* Control can cause the Location Manager to prompt you to select a location. Although Control is the default, you can redefine it in the Location Manager’s Preferences dialog, and since Control held down at startup also activates Apple’s MacsBug debugger (see below), you may wish to pick a different key combination.
* Command turns virtual memory off until the next restart.
* Shift-Option disables extensions other than Connectix’s RAM Doubler (and MacsBug – see below). To disable RAM Doubler but no other extensions, hold down the tilde (~) key at startup.
Choosing Startup Disks
Not surprisingly, many of the startup modifiers affect the disk used to boot the Mac. A number of these are specific to certain models of the Macintosh.
* The mouse button causes the Mac to eject floppy disks and most other forms of removable media, though not CD-ROMs.
* The C key forces the Mac to start up from a bootable CD-ROM, if one is present, which is useful if something goes wrong with your startup hard disk. This key doesn’t work with some older Macs or clones that didn’t use Apple CD-ROM drives; they require Command- Shift-Option-Delete instead (see below).
* Option activates the new Startup Manager on the iBook, Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), PowerBook (FireWire), and slot-loading iMacs. The Startup Manager displays a rather cryptic set of icons indicating available startup volumes, including any NetBoot volumes that are available. On some Macs with Iomega Zip drives, holding down Option at startup when there is a Zip startup disk inserted will cause the Mac to boot from the Zip disk.
* Command-Shift-Option-Delete bypasses the disk selected in the Startup Disk control panel in favor of an external device or from CD-ROM (on older Macs). This is also useful if your main hard disk is having problems and you need to start up from another device. (On some PowerBooks, however, this key combination merely ignores the internal drive, which isn’t as useful.)
* The D key forces the PowerBook (Bronze Keyboard and FireWire) to boot from the internal hard disk.
* The T key forces the PowerBook (FireWire) (and reportedly the Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), though I was unable to verify that on my machine) to start up in FireWire Target Disk Mode, which is essentially the modern equivalent of SCSI Disk Mode and enables a PowerBook (FireWire) to act as a FireWire-accessible hard disk for another Macintosh.
Seriously Tweaky Startup Modifiers
Only programmers and the most geeky of users will find these startup modifiers useful.
* Control activates Apple’s MacsBug debugger as soon as it loads. If you rely on this frequently, you may want to redefine the default key for selecting the Location Manager location at startup from Control to something else.
* Shift-Option disables extensions and virtual memory but still loads MacsBug, which would otherwise be disabled by the Shift key.
* Command-Option-O-F puts you into Open Firmware mode on PCI-based Macs and clones. Open Firmware is a cross-platform firmware standard for controlling hardware that all PCI-based Macs use. It’s mostly of interest to hardware developers, but it can be a fun way to freak out a new user who’s not expecting to see a command line on the Mac. To exit Open Firmware and continue booting, type “mac-boot” or “bye” (depending on Macintosh model) and press Return. For a list of commands you can enter while in Open Firmware mode, see the Tech Info Library article.
Just for Fun
Although Apple has moved away from relatively frivolous “Easter Eggs” connected with startup modifiers, there are a few available for old Macintosh models.
* Command-X-O, when held down at startup on a Macintosh Classic boots the Classic from a built-in ROM disk.
* Command-Option-C-I, when held down at startup on a Macintosh IIci whose date has been set to 20-Sep-89 (the machine’s introduction date), produces some sort of graphical display that I can’t check for lack of a relevant machine. A different display appears if you hold down Command-Option-F-X at startup on a Macintosh IIfx with the date set to 19-Mar-90.
Sorce = http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Tech_Notes/Mac_Keys.shtml
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Written on September 22, 2010 by Louisville Geek
A full backup is a backup of all of your files, e-mail, databases, etc. To run a full backup, you can not download the full backup right away. The backup takes time to perform and the server will send you an email once the backup is ready to download. Below are steps to requesting the backup to be performed.
Shared and Reseller: You may only create cPanel backups of 4 GB or less. If your backup is larger than 4GB, you must contact Louisville Geek support for help to bypass the limit.
- Click Backups
- Click Generate/ Download Full Backup
- In the drop down menu, select Home Directory
- In the box to the right of Email Address, type the email address where you will receive notification once the back up is done.
- Leave the rest of the settings blank.
- Click Generate back up.
- This will generate the back up for you and place the TAR.GZ file inside of your Home Directory.
- You can now download the backup via cpanel / FTP/ or SSH
If you would like to download the backup from cPanel (easiest way), please do the following:
- Click Backups
- Click Generate/Download a Full Backup
- Under “Backups Available for Download”, click the link with the file name of the backup.
- It will then start to download.
- Select a destination on your PC for where you would like to save it to.
- Click Save
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Written on September 9, 2010 by Louisville Geek
Either your domain is over quota, or your e-mail address itself is over quota. You will need to increase the amount of disk space to receive mail again.
Please sign into cPanel and look in the left menu for Disk Space Available. Make sure this is a positive number.
Next, please, click the Email Accounts icon. Check the column that says Usage, and make sure it is not higher than the Quota.
How can the email go over quota? The last message may have been large, or the quota may have been decreased while the email account was at its current size.
If you still have problems, please contact Louisville Geek
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Written on September 9, 2010 by Louisville Geek
If you aren’t able to send this usually means one thing… your internet provider is blocking you from using anyone’s outgoing mail servers but their own. Many major ISPs are blocking outgoing emails to prevent their internet connection from being used for spam. In order to work around this issue, we have opened Port 26. Please change the outgoing mail (SMTP) from the default Port 25 to Port 26.
If you use Outlook, please be sure that you select the option for “Outgoing SMTP Server Requires Authentication”. This is required by our server security now.
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Written on May 18, 2010 by Louisville Geek
Occasionally Macs go wacky.. so to speak. Inside your Mac is some non-volatile ram called PRAM – short for Parameter Ram. It stores a few settings inside it that enables your Mac to function. However, sometime these might get corrupt, so a quick troubleshooting technique is to reset the PRAM. You will lose a few settings such as your Time zone, volume, etc.. but they are all negligible.
You wold be amazed at what doing this can fix — it fixes stuff not even on Apple’s list of things it’s supposed to fix! Resetting PRAM is not the first thing I pull out of the arsenal. I always try repairing permissions, cleaning caches, etc… but if none of that works, clear the PRAM. Here’s how to do it: Shut down your Mac. Locate the keys: COMMAND OPTION P R Once you power on the Mac, before the gray screen appears – hold these keys down together until your Mac chimes 4 times. After it chimes for the fourth time, you can release them, and your Mac should start up as normal. Note: Apple’s documents say if you have a RAID, don’t do this, or you could have trouble booting up. Most people don’t have a RAID.. and if you do.. you know it. To read more about it, check out these official Apple documents. Mac OS X: What’s stored in PRAM? Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM Mac OS X: Computer won’t start up after resetting PRAM
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
How to configure an e-mail account in Outlook Express
If you have an email account set up on the server, you may want to configure Outlook or Outlook express to send/receive email from this email address. To configure Outlook to connect to your account, please do the following:
- Open Outlook Express
- In the top menu, click Tools
- Click the Accounts link
- Select the Mail tab
- Click the Add button
- Click Mail
- In the Display Name field, type any name you wish to associate with this email. This is only for aesthetic purposes. It doesn’t matter what name you use in this field.
- Click the Next button
- In the field to the right of E-mail Address, type the full email address including the domain name.
- Click the Next button
- For the Incoming and Outgoing servers, put mail.yourdomin.com or your server’s IP address.
- Click the Next button
- For the Account Name, type the full email address (including the domain name).
- In the Password section, type the password for the email.
- Click the Next button
- Click the Finish button
- You should still see the Mail tab, so click the Properties button
- Select the Servers tab
- Check the box at the bottom which says “My server requires authentication”
- Select the Advanced tab
- At the top you will see “Server Port Numbers” and “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” with a value of 25. You need to change this to port 26 if you are not able to send emails using 25.
- Click the Apply button, OK button, and the Close button.
- Now you can test your email.
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