Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac - E-book - Multi-format

The 17 basic troubleshooting procedures (along with the reasons why they can help) you'll learn are: - Restart your Mac - Force-quit an application - Start up from another volume - Run disk-repair utilities - Erase and restore from backup - Repair permissions - Start up in safe mode - Turn off login items - Check preference files - Reset PMU, SMU, SMC, NVRAM, or PRAM - Use Activity Monitor - Check free disk space - Check log files - Clear caches - Check your RAM - Test for reproducibility - Get system information Joe also explains how to solve 15 common problems, including: - Your computer won't turn on - Your computer keeps turning itself off - You experience repeated kernel panics - Your Mac is abnormally slow - You can't empty the Trash - An application grinds to a halt - An application crashes - The keyboard or mouse doesn't work - You lose your Internet connection - Printing doesn't work - Spotlight searches fail - Keychain (seemingly) forgets passwords - Apple Mail fails to connect - Time Machine misbehaves - A volume won't unmount