Questions tagged [restart]

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Restart screen features a progress bar: what is it?

Sometimes (and in particular the last two times I restarted), a strange bar looking like a load bar or a copy bar appears on the restart screen, as in the image below. I am running Mac OS X 10.9.5. What is it? Is it just the installation progress…
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How can I diagnose random restarts?

My Macbook Air is randomly restarting — a real problem when I have it set up to give a presentation, and walk to the stage to find it back at the login screen. How can I diagnose the cause?
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Mac 17" stuck in reboot loop

I turn on my mac to a grey screen then the apple logo appears then the log in I put in my password then I see my account pic with a loading bar below it then the screen goes grey shuts off and does the same thing I have have tried safe mode and…
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How To Execute Login Items Before Application Reopen?

System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> [user] -> Login Items seem to be executing after, or at least in parallel with, the application reopens on reboot. In my case this is undesirable because I have software that must run in order to keep the…
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Restart with the same windows and programs open

I have an iMac iOS 10.11.4. When I restarted it, all the programs and windows came back as it was. I do not why, it does not happen anymore. How can I have that feature back?
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