Hi: Can I do a clean install from recovery? > On May 31, 2016, at 8:26 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I'd first grab Malware Bytes, which is free and not, to my knowledge, on the > App Store. Go to www.malwarebytes.org <http://www.malwarebytes.org/> to find > the Mac installer for it. Run that and see what happens. > > I'd then either manually copy the important things, or do a Time Machine > backup then manually restore once the OS is re-installed. > > Installing the OS isn't bad, actually. There are tons of guides on putting > 10.10 or 10.11 (same process) on a thumb drive; from there, you'll boot into > the thumb drive (so try to find a fast one), use its Disk utility to wipe > your internal drive, then choose to install OS X on the thumb drive's version > of the OS. It sound complicated, but it's really not once you do it once. > Just be very sure to do all the backing up first. > > Finally, it could be that, well, it's a 2011 MacBook. It may just be old and > slow. My mom has a 2012, and I replaced the hard drive with an SSD this year, > plus doubled the ram to 8GB. It flies now! You might consider an upgrade like > that, unless your dad wants to wait for the release rumored to be coming > later this year when he can replace the machine with a new, or > last-generation, model. >> On May 31, 2016, at 20:28, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com >> <mailto:sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Oh man! My dad’s 2011 MBP is messed up! Mackeeper is on it, and won’t go >> away! The mac is so darn slow! >> I want to reinstall the OS, format the HD and make it like a new computer. >> I’m not sure how to do this! I also need to figure out how to backup all his >> stuff, IE docs, photos, etc, bookmarks, etc and not restore the virus or >> what ever is going on. I don’t want to restore a bootable backup. I’m not >> sure what to do! Any ideas? >> Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> > > > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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