10 Macintosh Troubleshooting Tips

If you are having trouble with your Macintosh computer look no further for help with our 10 Macintosh troubleshooting tips. Before trying these tips out, is your Macintosh computer a year old? If it is not a year old then make an appointment with your nearest Apple store to have them check out your computer. After all, why spend time trying to find out what is wrong your Macintosh when you can have a professional look at it for free? Without further wait here is our 10 Macintosh troubleshooting tips.

1. Restart Your Macintosh. The first tip on our list of 10 Macintosh troubleshooting tips is the easiest to do. Restart your computer as a program may be making your computer act funny. If that is the case a restart should fix the problem until you open that program again.
2. Make sure your computer is up to date. Our second tip on our list of 10 Macintosh troubleshooting tips is to make sure all your programs are up to date. It is also important to make sure that you have installed the latest Macintosh operating system updates. These updates are meant to fix bugs in the operating system and prevent problems. Without these updates installed, your Macintosh may run slower.
3. Disconnect peripherals and network cables. Turn off your computer and disconnect everything except the essentials then slowly plug everything back in. Once the problem starts to happen you can now know what is causing the problem. 
4. Look in the logs. Go to applications then utilities then to console to look at the logs. If you see anything that looks like it should not be there Google it or call Apple's support number.
5. Try using another account. Make another account on your Macintosh and see if the problem still exist. If it does not exist on your new account then your old user account has corrupted information. The quick and simple way to fix this is transfer your documents over to your new account and simply start using that one instead of your main one.
6. Safe Mode. Hold shift till the Apple logo appears to enter safe mode. This will allow you to isolate the problem. It will also allow you to back up your documents if you happen to need to reformat your Macintosh.
7. Run a Hardware Test. If you have a newer Macintosh the program will come with your computer. Run it and it will tell you if you have a hardware failure or not.
8. Repair disk permissions. Open up applications then go to utilities then go to disk utility. Once you have done that click your main hard drive then click repair disk permissions.
9. Repair your OS file system. This is done by going to applications then utilities then go to disk utility. After you have done that verify disk. If any problems are found it will ask you to click yes to repair them. Repair them and that should solve all your problems.
10. Google. Google what is wrong with your computer. Go through a couple sites and see if they have an idea to fix it. Unless you invented the operating system, chances are other people have had that exact same problem and are willing to help another computer user in need.