WilliamServator

Well, I guess that your Finder's preferences are corrupt. So the obvious place to start is drag the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist to your desktop, and relaunch Finder.A new preferences file should be created for Finder with out-of-the-box settings. If Finder now behaves itself, reset the preferences the way you had them. Don't forget to write down the name of any servers you use before moving the plist.If there's no change move the file back.(~ = your home folder)

Does the problem persist in a different user account?

Try- NOMENUBAR http://www.jeb.com.fr/en/nomenubar.shtml It may be what you are looking for.

Try Menushade link>>>> https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16640/menushade I use this with Tiger (10.4.2)

Florida is planning on holding a vote on stem cells! See the Wired Article: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I have set up a gigabit network in a small business. CAT-5 can handle the 1000 mbs speed, although CAT-5e is recommended. If you watch sites like dealmac.com or hot-deals.org, you can find 5 to 8 port gigagit switches for $30 to $40. On my network, I'm primarily mac. I'm seeing speeds of about 30 to 36 MBs yes not megabits but megabytes! Gigabit was definitely worth the switch.

You didn't really tell us what system your using... On the offchance that your using a Mac, iChat does this very well. If you aren't using a mac.... you should be.

The new flash player is a free download at http://www.adobe.com/downloads.html . For anyone surfing the net on a Mac this is a must have. The speed increase is immediately noticable!

If your using Mac OS X, iChat's Rendevous/Bonjour section is great. Not only can you do text chats, but with our gigabit switch, you can easily do high quality voice chatting and video chatting. At work, We even configured a web cam to monitor the lobby when our receptionist is out; if the alarm system chimes, you switch programs and everyone knows who has arrived. Very handy and it is all bundled with the OS.

I've not configured a netgear, but I know that my linksys 802.11G didn't like certain configurations. First, make sure that both the wifi and the computer are set to the same encryption. Second, with my linksys, when I set my password and identified it to do a hex encryption. It selected the "pick a key" and each key had a 9 digit number next to it. Mac OSX does not convert your password to hex before sending it, so you need to enter the hex value of the password at your computer. (So instead of "Hello", you might have "F35GB89TW") If niether of these work, I would recommend purchasing an 802.11G Linksys; Fairly cheap, easy to configure, great signal, very reliable. (Not to mention the speed boost from 802.11B to 802.11G!)

I would not recommend doing it, even if you could. You see, Apple Powerbooks release most of their heat through the keyboard. Thus, if you don't sleep the machine on close, it will overheat and destroy your display.

I haven't done a tremendous amount of work with OS 9 but I can give you a couple of hints. It's unlikely that your Ram is causing this. Even with the little ram that you have, the speed at which your connection will pull the images ought to be slower. It could be that your internet is having problems.If you go to here: http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ you ought to be able to see your internet speed.

Mac OS X is by far my favorite. My main reasons are as follows:1) It comes bundled with a tremendous amount of valuable software, all of which is scripted to work together.2) The design gives it a more polished look than that of windows or command-line OS's.3) If you need a powerful command-line function, OS X is based on UNIX and a UNIX terminal can be easily accessed.4) Apple offers developer tools as a FREE download.There are Many more reasons, however this is the bases...Oh, and it is highly unlikely that you will be able to run OS X on a non-apple intel box. I read a press release that states that OS X on intel boxes must talk to a special chip that only apple makes before it starts up.

First, I would highly recommend doing the software update and downloading the OS10.3.9, which I believe is a free upgrade; however, the upgrade is not that critical.Second, If you are deleting an application, such as garage band, it is safe to delete the corresponding folder in ~/library/"application support". These support files can get very large for certain apps. For example, Garage Band stores all of its loops in the application support file, thus it starts at about 1.2 gigs (Not certain about that number, I've deleted it from my machine).Third, the only real tracks that would be left behind on an apple would be aliases and .plists. Aliases must be deleted as you find them, and there is no real easy way to do it other than searching and deleting. However an application's .plist is always safe to delete (note that if you aren't delete the application, you will lose all preferences). This is located in "~/library/preferences" and "/library/preferences", and will be named something like "com.apple.garageband.plist"