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Article: BAD PREFERENCES OFTEN CULPRIT.(Technology)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2001
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Byline: GENE WOLF CONTRIBUTING WRITER
OK, I need to be perfectly honest here. For the past couple of years you've seen me write how seldom Macs have problems. I've pointed out that PC people have far more viruses, far more troubles and much more difficulty getting balky systems to work than Mac users.
However, let's be honest with each other: Macs have problems from time to time, too.
Your Mac operating system does things behind the scenes to make things easy for you, but that can also lead to trouble. For example, when you move that Microsoft Word application from one hard drive to another, the operating system updates information so it knows ...