talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) (09/09/90)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that one could disable MultiFinder from loading during the starup process. Does anyone out there know how and when one can do this? -- | Adam Talcott | Not a bad bit of rescuing, | | talcott@nunki.usc.edu | huh? You know, sometimes I | | Electrical Engineering (Computers) Senior | even amaze myself. | | University of Southern California | --Han Solo |
johan@ut-emx (Johan van Zanten) (09/09/90)
If you hold down the Command (cloverleaf-looking thing) key while starting up, you will be using the Finder rather than Multifinder. This is a one time deal, if you restart again (holding no keys down) your "normal" mode of starting up (configurable through "Set Startup...") will take effect as usual. johan
jason@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason) (09/10/90)
talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) writes: >I seem to remember reading somewhere that one could disable MultiFinder from >loading during the starup process. Does anyone out there know how and when >one can do this? Hold down the command key. This also disables some INITs so, if you have any of those, hold the command key down after they load but before the Finder desktop appears. -- | | |====================| | | | Jason Watts | \ |\ |\ \ | (jazzin@uiuc.edu) |
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (09/12/90)
In article <1990Sep9.170159.13543@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jason@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason) writes: > talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) writes: > > >I seem to remember reading somewhere that one could disable MultiFinder from > >loading during the starup process. Does anyone out there know how and when > >one can do this? > > Hold down the command key. This also disables some INITs so, if you > have any of those, hold the command key down after they load but before the > Finder desktop appears. I have a vague recollection that this is in the manual... But this is a _Mac_ we're talking about. How did this dreadful practice of hiding features behind magic combinations of modifier keys sneak into common practice? Would it be all that difficult to pop up a dialog at launch time, giving a status report with some options to cancel things? Of course, in the much-anticipated System 7, there won't be an option to turn off MultiFinder, but I mean as a general principle, isn't it time this sort of thing was rooted out? Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (09/12/90)
In <1990Sep11.172616.11187@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: >In article <1990Sep9.170159.13543@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, >jason@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason) writes: >> talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott) writes: >> >I seem to remember reading somewhere that one could disable MultiFinder >> Hold down the command key. This also disables some INITs so, if you >How did this dreadful practice of hiding features behind >magic combinations of modifier keys sneak into common practice? Would it be >all that difficult to pop up a dialog at launch time, giving a status report >with some options to cancel things? I agree with you that important things like MultiFinder, generating a post- script file from the Laserwriter and looking at the hidden Zebra-girl in MacPaint shouldn't be hidden in mysterious key combinations. But I don't like your idea about a dialog box at startup time: I want a rather fast startup. If you want a dialog asking for MultiFinder/no MultiFinder you could use the utility ToMultiFinder (version 4.0) to accomplish exactly this (look at sumex "info-mac/util/tomultifinder-40.hqx", shareware $15). /Olle
lorin@litsun.epfl.ch (Ronan-Yann Lorin) (09/17/90)
Press the command key. Ronan.
jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos) (09/19/90)
lorin@litsun.epfl.ch (Ronan-Yann Lorin) writes: >Press the command key. > Ronan. A warning for people using the DeskTop Manager: If you press the command key during startup, it will rebuild the desktop & erase all file your comments _without asking_. I found this out the hard way: all my comments are vanished. BTW: of course, it still does start up uniFinder, but it does this extra for free. Not something to be happy with. -- | | "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what | | Jurjen N.E. Bos | it might appear to others that what you were or might | | | have been was not otherwise than what you had been | | jurjen@cwi.nl | would have appeared to them to be otherwise." |