Weird thing happened

[Arvean]

Hi guys,

I'm not an expert on OS X, however recently I've been trying to spend more time with the system to learn and possibly switch from W7.

The weirdest thing happened last night. I'm was trying to uninstall istat 3.0 from my system and it froze( the beach ball ). After force quiting it, i tried to start Word but the icon would only keep on bouncing and stop after a minute. No error message no nothing.

I was sure it's an issue with Office itself, but no other software is starting. Mental Case, UnrarX, Excel, even Ponyvid, just bounce their icon around for 30-40 seconds and wont start.

The only software that works are Apple's own Safari, Mail, Calendar , iPhoto and iTunes. They start normally with no fuss.

I tried restarting and even creating another user account, and it didn't help.

Is it possible that istat 3.0 blew something in the system? If so, what can it be? Anybody had this kind of situation before? Any fix on hand?
What should I do next?

Thanks in advance

 

[GGJstudios]

I'm an expert on OS X,

Wow! From zero to expert in just 5 months! Impressive! If you're an expert, why are you asking us? I don't know any of us who would make that claim, so you probably know far more than we do!

 

[Arvean]

Wow! From zero to expert in just 5 months! Impressive! If you're an expert, why are you asking us? I don't know any of us who would make that claim, so you probably know far more than we do!

I apologize.

As you can see from the context I meant NOT an EXPERT

 

[calderone]

Wow! From zero to expert in just 5 months! Impressive! If you're an expert, why are you asking us? I don't know any of us who would make that claim, so you probably know far more than we do!

I probably would... But that was probably a typo on the OPs part.

To the OP. If a new user account didn't fix it, then the problem probably exists somewhere in the local resources (/Library). Maybe the iStat uninstaller fubar'd some permissions.

Since I am not at your machine, I can't tell you what the problem is exactly. You will have to figure it out yourself.

 

[GGJstudios]

Have you tried running Activity Monitor to see what's running and taking system resources?

 

[Hal Itosis]

I'm was trying to uninstall istat 3.0 from my system and it froze( the beach ball ).

More info about what actions were taken would help.
What steps did "uninstall istat" consist of in this case?

As for the current misbehavior, are there any messages in Console.app (system.log, etc.) that seem relevant?