Macbook is ******... please help

I have had my macbook for almost 2 years now and never had a problem.

Until recently

A few days ago, Firefox3 started crashing consistently... now its gotten to the point where my computer runs at the speed of a handicapped turtle, and no applications can open and fully work without crashing.

I have nothing i need to save on my computer and i wanted to do a full restore/erase of my hard drive but the only thing is I don't know where the **** my **** install discs are. I've tried deleting stuff left and right, including over 40 gigs of hard drive space and still the problem persists.

Anyone have any advice on what i should do ?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 9, 2009 7:54 PM

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Aug 9, 2009 9:19 PM in response to Stinkyfire

Hello Stinkyfire, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Without an Install Disc, At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...

applejack AUTO

Then let it do all 5 of it's things.

The 5 things it does are...

Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

At least if it doesn't fix it, it'll eliminate a few questions. 🙂
Besides, once you really, really need it... you can't install it!

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