One of the minor but relatively long-standing bugs in OS X Mavericks has been an inability to boot to Safe Mode on some systems after upgrading. When attempting, the Safe Mode progress bar may display ...

Reader Simon Hansen finds his Mac slow to do his bidding. He writes: My Mac has been running very slowly lately and I wanted to see how much faster it would be if I disabled its startup items. But ...

Safe mode is an important troubleshooting tool. It boots the OS in such a way that it uses the bare minimum files and apps to start and run. This can help you isolate issues, figure out where problems ...

There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

The troubleshooting mode of an operating system. By pressing a particular key after the computer is turned on, it allows the system to boot with only essential components such as the OS kernel and ...

My buddy gave me his wife's Dell Studio 1737 to fix, tried to let it boot normally, got a BSOD with an error msg. Ok, driver issue. I googled and found out this ...