Unable to open System Preferences

Hello! I am having an issue with my PowerBook G4 17 inch. 1.33 GHz. I am unable to open system preferences and spotlight and everything that is supposed to be on the top right bar gone. Ever since this happened boot up is slower too. I don’t have any discs that came with it. I need system preferences right now. Is there anyway of fixing this? I am running Mac OS 10.4.11

Anthony

Posted on Jan 25, 2021 9:23 PM

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Acican Author

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Jan 27, 2021 10:54 AM in response to K Shaffer

Ok I will start looking up on DuckDuckGo and see what I can find. I have every Adobe thing there is on my laptop and was hoping to start using them again. An ssd would probably be a lot better to use than a hard drive for photoshop and all that. If I were to buy an ssd how would I transfer my data? I have a windows pc but I don’t know if it is compatible with a Mac hardrive. My friend has a MacBook Pro 2010 but is is slower than my PowerBook. What would be a good place to buy an ssd? What place do you recommend to buy ppc parts? That’s cold! It’s been in the 20s and 30s here. It used to get in the negatives but these last couple years it’s warmed up.

Anthony

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Jan 26, 2021 8:46 AM in response to K Shaffer

One more thing, my WiFi also doesn’t work. I tried using internet connect to connect to WiFi but my internet doesn’t show up.

Acican Author

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Jan 26, 2021 10:45 AM in response to K Shaffer

Ok I tried safe mode and the problem persisted.

Acican Author

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Jan 27, 2021 8:47 AM in response to K Shaffer

I found this, is it a good one?

SSD

I also found this adapter

SSD Adapter

Acican Author

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Jan 27, 2021 11:08 AM in response to K Shaffer

Do you have a PPC?

https://ppcappstore.wordpress.com/

this is a third party App Store for PPC.

Anthony

Acican Author

Level 1

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Jan 27, 2021 5:17 PM in response to K Shaffer

Ok so my Mac is now stuck at the grey boot up Apple logo.

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Unable to open System Preferences