Open System Preferences>Accounts, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account. To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this.

If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward. (Yes, you can set it much smaller, but then you make it progressively more difficult to identify an icon without 'scrubbing' the screen with your mouse to reveal its label. (Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.) The Dock by default sucks up around 70 pixels square minimum, more than four times as much vertical space as either the Windows task bar or the Macintosh menu bar. Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.' Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). How to Locate & Access All Mac OS X System Icons Open a new Finder window from the Mac OS X Desktop and hit Command+Shift+G (or go to the Go menu and choose Go To Folder Paste in the following complete file system path in Go To Folder: /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*ĥ. *Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer.

(In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.) When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.Ģ.

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