Panther cannot change language & where are startup items ?
Hi,
this topic is to solve some problems I got with an iBook G4 someone lent to me to bring it back on its feet.
The first problem is I don't want to use English as the system's language. I'm supposed to place the language I want as the first choice in the International settings; not only I put French as the first choice, but I removed the others, and relaunched the Finder. Nothing changed, it's still in English.
The second problem is that some programs start on login for every user listed on the computer, and that these programs are not in the Accounts options. I checked in the /Library folder, looking for a Startup Items folder, but didn't found any.
Panther is different from Leopard, and seems it doesn't have this folder. I'm not at all familiar with Panther, and searches on the Internet haven't returned a viable result, as the OS is probably too old.
Apart from that, there are some performance issues, but I assume this is due in a great part to the 256MB RAM it sports. Don't ask, this iBook will be retired in like 6 month, so I won't buy RAM for it. The computer is a bit slow when running 2 or 3 apps at a time
I don't want to reformat for these kind of issues which are surely minor for whoever knows the system a bit. I was told the OS was reinstalled by an authorized but nevertheless careless Apple service center. My friend hasn't understood what they told they did to the machine except changing the hard drive, and didn't bother to ask again.
Thx for help
this topic is to solve some problems I got with an iBook G4 someone lent to me to bring it back on its feet.
The first problem is I don't want to use English as the system's language. I'm supposed to place the language I want as the first choice in the International settings; not only I put French as the first choice, but I removed the others, and relaunched the Finder. Nothing changed, it's still in English.
The second problem is that some programs start on login for every user listed on the computer, and that these programs are not in the Accounts options. I checked in the /Library folder, looking for a Startup Items folder, but didn't found any.
Panther is different from Leopard, and seems it doesn't have this folder. I'm not at all familiar with Panther, and searches on the Internet haven't returned a viable result, as the OS is probably too old.
Apart from that, there are some performance issues, but I assume this is due in a great part to the 256MB RAM it sports. Don't ask, this iBook will be retired in like 6 month, so I won't buy RAM for it. The computer is a bit slow when running 2 or 3 apps at a time
I don't want to reformat for these kind of issues which are surely minor for whoever knows the system a bit. I was told the OS was reinstalled by an authorized but nevertheless careless Apple service center. My friend hasn't understood what they told they did to the machine except changing the hard drive, and didn't bother to ask again.
Thx for help
iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
