Geek Posted July 19, 2011 Posted July 19, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/auto-restart-if-mac-freezes.png" alt="Automatically restart Mac if freezes" title="auto-restart-if-mac-freezes" width="612" height="112" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18895" /></p> <p>Your Mac will automatically restart itself if it freezes, thanks to a new feature in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>. Tucked away in “Energy Saver”, the auto-restart ability is an option that can be disabled if for whatever reason you don’t want your Mac to basically fix itself in the event of a disaster. </p> <p>To toggle this feature:</p> <ul> <li>Launch System Preferences</li> <li>Click on “Energy Saver” and look for “Restart automatically if the computer freezes”</li> </ul> <p>Macs very rarely freeze, but if you do encounter random freezes and crashes, it may be a good idea to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/13/test-defective-ram-rember-mac-os-x/">test your RAM for defects</a>. At this point, Mac OS X is so refined that it’s very unusual for the entire operating system to go down or simply freeze, especially with any regularity, so this can be an indicator of something greater than a random one-off freeze. <span id="more-18894"></span> Regardless of the causes of a system freeze, this is a great feature. If you were wondering why it’s tucked into Energy Saver, it’s probably because a restarted Mac can sleep the display and hard drives, whereas a frozen Mac will continue to display the screen and spin the hard drive, wasting energy. This is just one of many new and subtle features tucked into <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/restart-if-freezes.jpg" alt="Automatically restart Mac if freezes in OS X Lion" title="restart-if-freezes" width="620" height="488" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18896" /></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z1TmCkbgSZmd-o2kUtn63w1ciHw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z1TmCkbgSZmd-o2kUtn63w1ciHw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z1TmCkbgSZmd-o2kUtn63w1ciHw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Z1TmCkbgSZmd-o2kUtn63w1ciHw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOyqhKaB57s:kE8fjfWPSp8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/UOyqhKaB57s" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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