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Tagged with login-screen macos
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macOS Big Sur - high CPU usage before user login
Is there a way to log the system activities, such as errors or cpu usage data, before user login?
I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 on MacBook Pro 16 inch - 2019, and I found the machine is hot and the ...
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Mac showing a different name at login screen
You can see in my screenshot that my lock screen says "Hello Erwin", which is a name I use for some website account names. I am pretty sure I have nowhere entered that on my mac and I conformed it by ...
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How do I login with my user even though its not on the Mac OSx login screen?
I am a long time linux user that was given a mac at work.
I have signed into the machine with IT's help but when I rebooted (to restart finder because I did not know any other way). I was not able to ...
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Unresponsive mouse and keyboard on login screen (macbook pro 2015)
When I boot the laptop from shutdown state (not resuming or awakening), it quickly goes to the login screen as normal but the mouse and keyboard seem unresponsive, but not completely:
Every like 5-7 ...
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OSX Yosemite: Can't login to MacBook Air, FileVault is on
I can't get into my Mac (10.10.5 Yosemite). The problem is that I know the password but I simply can't type it in.
Yesterday I bought this laptop, I'm Lithuanian so I decided to make the default ...
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Run application in login window
I am looking for a way to run an application like Reflector or AirServer on both a Mac and PC before the user login occurs, the application is pretty much GUI-less until someone starts sending data to ...
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OSX the login switch screen turns off the WIFI
I have a program that is downloading a file, and I enter the login window while attending
(so that I can leave and nobody can use my computer).
unfortunately, OSX automatically turns off the wifi ...
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How to disable Mac Login screen at boot time?
I bought a new Mac Mini in June, when i click the power it goes to login screen then i login then it boots up, i want it not to ask for the user/pass in this stage and ask later when the operating ...
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Add a Network User to Mac OS X Login screen
It's easy enough to hide a user on the Mac OS X Login screen but, how do you add a network user to the Login screen?
Currently users click "Other…" and type their username & password. Most of ...
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OS X gets stuck at the login window and only displays the dark blue linen background
I had to hard boot my MacBook off last night after it got stuck in a Keynote presentation.
On the restart, I opened Safari / Chrome and would visit a webpage and about a second after rendering the ...
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How do I change the cosmos picture displayed at startup on Mac OS X?
I want to change the purple cosmos picture that is displayed at startup and login time on Mac OS X.
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Tap to click on OS X login screen?
I'm using OS X Snow Leopard, on a Macbook Pro.
Is there any way to "tap to click" (on the trackpad) instead of pressing down on the trackpad when interacting with the login screen?
It's not really ...
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How to disable Finder launching at login in Snow Leopard?
Pre-Snow Leopard, I could use the following command:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow Finder /Applications/My-replacement-app-such-as-Terminal.app
Which would a.) replace the Finder launching at ...
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Hide users from Mac OS X Snow Leopard logon screen
Somehow, I managed to set a passwd for my _postgres user on my OS instead of setting it on the postgres role I have as my superuser / root. Anyways since this, I've been struggling with that user ...
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Induce Mac graphical login from SSH
How do I induce the Mac graphical login from SSH? Is there a way to make the loginwindow process start a user session by running a command when remotely logged in via SSH as an admin on Mac OS X?
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