Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Demand

Chapter 17. Maintaining Your Computer

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• Download and Install Software

• Automate Software Updates

• Open Compressed Files

• Compress and Uncompress Files and Folders

• Use Application Services

• Understand Disk File Systems

• Format and Copy a Disk

• Fix Disk Problems

• Optimize a Disk

• Start Your Computer From a Mac OS 9 Disk

• Migrate Information Between Macs

• Monitor System Activities

• View System Messages with the Console

• View System Information with System Profiler

• Force a Restart

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Introduction

Once you’ve bought your Macintosh computer, installed the operating system and all your applications, it’s important to be able to keep all that software up-to-date; especially the operating system software. With the consistent updates that ...