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MacBookAir User

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Jul 29, 2015
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I recently let a friend log into the guest account on my MacBook Air they switched accounts while I the administrator was logged in. They switched to the guest user account and my MacBook Air just crashed... The curser moves but am not able to press anything...

I have held the power button down but nothing happens it will NOT reboot, restart or anything...

I cannot press the apple button in the top left hand of the screen to try and force quit anything I can NOT press anything...

I have left it for a full day and it's still frozen.. I left the battery to run dead the laptop died but when I put the charger in it just booted back to the same frozen screen......

I have closed the lid for hours and still nothing ..... I have seen similar problems but I'm not able to press, select or shutdown anything...

Please help me as I have not more options
 
I recently let a friend log into the guest account on my MacBook Air they switched accounts while I the administrator was logged in. They switched to the guest user account and my MacBook Air just crashed... The curser moves but am not able to press anything...

I have held the power button down but nothing happens it will NOT reboot, restart or anything...

I cannot press the apple button in the top left hand of the screen to try and force quit anything I can NOT press anything...

I have left it for a full day and it's still frozen.. I left the battery to run dead the laptop died but when I put the charger in it just booted back to the same frozen screen......

I have closed the lid for hours and still nothing ..... I have seen similar problems but I'm not able to press, select or shutdown anything...

Please help me as I have not more options

You didn't hold down the power button long enough.

If you hold it down for over 6-7 seconds and the machine doesn't turn off, then something is catastrophically wrong with the laptop. Or I guess that button is broken, but that seems unlikely.
 
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