OSx capslock stuck and mousepad unresponsive
sweave
boston
Alright a friend of mine was telling me yesterday about how her laptop (sorry didn't tell me the model) recently had a problem where the where on booting up the system the caps-lock would be stuck on.
The caps-lock light would be times be lighting up and sometimes it would not light up.
There were also issues with the mouse-pad being unresponsive.
She told me that this occurred on several boot ups into the system.
She took it to the campus tech guys who then proceeded to remove programs. The only one she told me were removed were WoW, Vmware fusion (and thus XP). However I am not sure if those were the only ones removed or the only ones she remembered (which i think is more likely).
According to her the laptop is now functioning properly but she does want those programs reinstalled.
I'm going to meet up with her on Thursday to take a look at things.
When i asked if she had an anti-virus/firewall installed she kind of assumed the laptop had already come with those
Anyway since I'm not really a mac person are there any suggestions from you all as to what might have caused this (vague i know) but more importantly are there any diagnostic tools i should look into when take a look at the machine.
thanks
The caps-lock light would be times be lighting up and sometimes it would not light up.
There were also issues with the mouse-pad being unresponsive.
She told me that this occurred on several boot ups into the system.
She took it to the campus tech guys who then proceeded to remove programs. The only one she told me were removed were WoW, Vmware fusion (and thus XP). However I am not sure if those were the only ones removed or the only ones she remembered (which i think is more likely).
According to her the laptop is now functioning properly but she does want those programs reinstalled.
I'm going to meet up with her on Thursday to take a look at things.
When i asked if she had an anti-virus/firewall installed she kind of assumed the laptop had already come with those
Anyway since I'm not really a mac person are there any suggestions from you all as to what might have caused this (vague i know) but more importantly are there any diagnostic tools i should look into when take a look at the machine.
thanks
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So for someone who really doesn't understand how viruses and junk propogate they should get anti-virus software on their mac. Not so much for protecting themselves but to prevent them from passing it on to others. This goes infinitely more in a school environment.
and i also couldn't really understand why uninstalling those programs would have had any issues since she was having problems before she even put in her password to login.
the only software we're going to be installing is world of warcraft on the mac side
and then vmware fusion, windows xp sp3 (i think i should install an some protection on this as well maybe?), and a game called solstice reborn on the XP vm.