How to Optimize Mac OS9 Mountain Home AR

Posted by : Dennis Sellers

As you've read before in ComputerUser, Mac OS9 is a solid update of Apple's venerable operating system-and the last major overhaul of it before Apple releases its new-from-the-ground-up, next--generation Mac OSX, due this summer. This month's Mac Advisor offers some tips on getting the most out of Mac OS9.

First of all, don't even think about installing the OS if you're running anything less than a Power Mac packing 32MB of physical RAM with virtual memory turned on-or running the RAM Doubler utility from Connectix. Your Mac will run smoother and faster if you have at least 64MB of real RAM.

There are some potential problems with Mac OS9 you may have to overcome. Some users have installed it and run into problems with DVD movies. What's up? On Power Mac G4 and iMac computers that shipped with Apple DVD 2.0 Beta 2, performing a clean installation of Mac OS9 can result in the Apple DVD Player not working.

You'll know if this is happening to you when you're greeted with this cheerful message: "The application 'Apple DVD Player' could not be opened because 'DVDRuntimeLib/' could not be found." You can usually take care of the problem by dragging the DVD components (DVD Navigation Manager, DVD Region Manager, and DVDRunTimeLib) in the previous Extensions folder over to the new Extensions folder and restarting.

By the way, in Mac OS9, the Apple DVD Player is no longer listed in the Apple menu, but is found in the Applications fold...

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