Re: OS X slow/needs restart sometimes when waking up..
Like defragging a PC? No, I don't think so, but anyway you've done that and it was a good idea. When was the last time you actually did any housecleaning though? You may need to clear your PB of cache files and such that are hogging a lot of hard disk space. I would recommend either
OnyX or
Cocktail. They both have semiautomatic settings that allow you to do all this cleanup work at once. In Cocktail (my personal favorite, but it costs ten bucks) it's called Pilot. Just click on the tab, select everything except Prebinding (done automatically in Jaguar and Panther), and check Restart When Finished. In OnyX it's called Automate and is a bit more complicated so I would just leave the default check marks in place, then click Execute. OnyX is free.
If that doesn't do it, then run FSCK. Restart your PB while holding down the Command and letter 's' keys. You'll get some code, then the curser will stop. Type
fsck -y (in Jaguar) or
fsck -y -f (in Panther)
Note the spaces. Hit the enter or return key. This is the exact same thing as Repair Disk in Disk Utility, but easier than starting up from the Installer CD to run it. You'll get some more code and finally you should get a line that reads "the volume so-and-so appears to be OK." If you get a line that reads "the volume so-and-so has been modified," then run it again until you get the OK line. You might have to do it 3 or 4 times, since repairing one thing might lead to it finding something else on the next pass. Just takes about a minute for each one. Then type
Exit
and hit enter or return again to boot back into OS X. If you get anything other than the above, or it starts a scan and won't stop, get back to us for more steps you can take. (If it won't stop, you'll have to do a hard shutdown -- I'm not sure how that's done on a PB, but on a desktop just hold the power button in for 5 to 7 seconds.)
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