in need of help

today when i booted up ny ibook for some reason things had been changed.......
#1 ny desktop background was at default
#2 my dock was back to the default.
3 my home page which i had set was noreturned back to apple



it was almost as if i had done a system restore and rolled everything abck to were it was default.....
does any one know the cause of this and coujld help me please
ohh yea also Clear Dock had been removed from my computer
weird...olr not...io have no clue



aaron

Sounds like someone played a cruel joke on you. Look for a folder called "user backup" or something similar.

If no one else had access to your iBook and it did this by itself then you might want to take it to someone at the Apple Store for a peek.

yes no one had access to comp. but the closest apple store is like 200 miles away......and i got in a wreck in my car yesterday so... i guess ill start walking

that sounds like a problem, is it happening again every time you start up? try zapping the pram and repairing permissions. also download preferential treatment to see if any of your system/oser preferences are corrupt, if so, tis may be the beginning of a corrupt os. what os exactly are you running, 10.x.x?

Macman said:

that sounds like a problem, is it happening again every time you start up? try zapping the pram and repairing permissions. also download preferential treatment to see if any of your system/oser preferences are corrupt, if so, tis may be the beginning of a corrupt os. what os exactly are you running, 10.x.x?

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ok. It is not happening every tiome i boot up.
i am running 10.3.5
i would zap the pram and repair the permissions if i only new how. ikm new to OSX i will download that preferential treatmaent and c .
tnaks for teh help

//update//
i downloaded preferential treatment and ther were no problems found ont he users nor the system prefernnces or w/e

to zap the pram, shut down your mac, start it up holding down command+option+P+R until the mac 'chimes' twice, then release and itll start up as normal.
to repair permissions, open disk utility, its in the utilities folder inside applications. open it, after it says gathgering info, your drive will be listed in the colum on the left, select it, then click repair permissions, after its done, restart your mac. these wont bring back your old settings and such, but will fix any problems just starting and any already existent. o prevent it from happening again. zapping the pram may reset your clock.