When I bought my shiny new iBook G4, I was amazed how it didn't get
bogged down like Windows. See, in Windows, if you do anything
resources-intensive, the entire system suffers, and even after that
task is done, the system is still in some kind of shock and it runs
poorly. Recently, however, I experienced something similar on my Mac.
I installed X-Chat, which shot the system straight to hell. Then,
Poisoned was unable to run, and even after I uninstalled X-Chat and
Poisoned, the Poisoned installer crashed--it couldn't run, period. So
here's my question. Clearly X-Chat did some damage to my system. Are
there any utilities around that can undo said damage? Sorry if I'm
being really vague, I don't know too much about Macs.

jvictor118******.fr wrote in message news:<48346d13.0401051820.192c48f@posting.google.c om>...
> When I bought my shiny new iBook G4, I was amazed how it didn't get
> bogged down like Windows. See, in Windows, if you do anything
> resources-intensive, the entire system suffers, and even after that
> task is done, the system is still in some kind of shock and it runs
> poorly. Recently, however, I experienced something similar on my Mac.
> I installed X-Chat, which shot the system straight to hell. Then,
> Poisoned was unable to run, and even after I uninstalled X-Chat and
> Poisoned, the Poisoned installer crashed--it couldn't run, period. So
> here's my question. Clearly X-Chat did some damage to my system. Are
> there any utilities around that can undo said damage? Sorry if I'm
> being really vague, I don't know too much about Macs.

(1) Go Disk Utility, pick your hard drive and under First Aid run
Repair Disk permissions
(Might not help but is always a good thing to do)
(2) While you notice the slowdown go to
Applications->Utilities->Acitvity Monitor
Under Monitor, pick Show Activity Monitor. Click the %CPU column and
see what processes are using up your CPU. This should give you some
clues, if not look at the memory usage and someone might be sucking up
all available memory.
(3) What version of OS X are you running (About this Mac under Blue
Apple) and how much memory do you have (same place) ?

--jim