When Your MAC Hangs Get Access from the Keyboard?
posted 11 April 2008, Friday
Once in a blue moon you may experience an OS X lockup and non-responsive computer. Granted, I can't remember the last time I had a lockup on my MAC. I am sure I have just can't recall since its so rare an occasion.
However, since upgrading to OSX MS OFFICE 2008 and using EXCEL I have experienced lock ups so regularly I sware I'm on Windows.
The first thing you should try is to quite the abusive application through the FORCE-QUIT facility from the Apple menu. I found myself not having the ability to click the Apple Menu as the Rainbow Wheel of Death was churning happily along and ignoring all mouse click requests.
Rescued by a few through keystrokes I thought it better to document it and share important last resort keystrokes for easy reference.
- Command(apple)-Option-ESC to initiate the force quit menu
- Command-CTRL-Power to reboot the computer (this is analogous to Control-OpenApple-Reset for Apple ][gs Users)
- Command-Opt-Shift-Power : This shuts down the computer (Is closest to WINDOW CTL-ALT-DELETE)
- Control-EJECT initiates the shut down dialog
Hope this is helpful.
1. Jon N. left...
4 June 2008, Wednesday 2:31 pm
I agree. Excel 2008 is hanging on every other file I try to feed it. Worst
software in decades. Word is only slightly less slow. Too bad, Entourage
seems OK, but also is what my workplace has me locked to MS with. Good
planning on MS's part. I'm hoping I can reinstall 2004 but worry about the
Entourage database.