Monday, February 13, 2012

Some Mac OS Startup Tricks and Shortcuts

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Here is some startup shortcuts which will you for better experience on you Mac and make you learn about tricks on startup of Mac.

OS X safe boot- Press and hold Shift during startup

Force OS X startup- Press and hold X during startup

Choose startup disk before booting- Press and hold Option during starup

Start up from a CD or DVD- Press and hold C during startup

Startup in Firewire Target Disk mode- Press and hold T during startup

Bypass primary startup volume and to choose a different startup volume- Press and hold Cmd + Opt + Shift + Delete during startup

Eject CD on boot- Press and hold the mouse button once you push the power button

Startup in single-user mode (command line)- Press and hold Cmd + S during startup

Start up in Verbose mode- Press and hold Cmd + V during startup

Sleep immediately without confirmation- Cmd + Opt + Eject

Restart immediately without confirmation- Cmd + Ctrl + Eject

Shutdown immediately without confirmation- Cmd + Opt + Ctrl + Eject

Show dialog with Restart, Sleep and Shutdown options- Ctrl + Eject

Put display to sleep- Ctrl + Shift + Eject