Sometimes it was necessary to carry out a little maintenance on your Apple MacBook or iMac computers if you feel they are not quite running as well as they could. One method on older Macs was to carry ...

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Yesterday we noted a possible fix for issues with sleep/shutdown behavior that involved resetting PRAM/NVRAM via a startup keyboard command that invokes flushing. As part of the fix, we noted that the ...

Zapping a Mac's PRAM/NVRAM has, in the minds of some users, come to be thought of as a useless ritual -- a troubleshooting step that doesn't accomplish anything but is still recommended as a feel-good ...

When I first installed OS X.3 (clean, on a newly formatted partition), at one point my machine (B+W) wouldn't start up, crashing very early on in the boot process, even when booting from CD. Resetting ...