Macbook Hard Reset

[Dgreg63]

I was given an old MacBook 2006 (I think) I have had the screen replaced (as broken) and upgraded the memory to 2 GB. Safari will not work and there are a load of bits on there that I do not want. I want to do a factory reset but have no disk. It is running Mac OS X 10.4.11. 1.83 GHz Intel core duo 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. I have tried to re-install Safari but each time I am told it will not work with my version of OS X.
I attempted to do a reset followed the instruction on the video on youtube and although I now have my details on the MacBook it still has the old programs on it & Safari still won't work. I tried installing Firefox but again I have the wrong version of OS X. PLease can someone put me out of my misery.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

This is the Safari version for 10.4.11

Here are your MacBook's specs

As for any old programs you don't want just drag them to the Trash.

You can upgrade your MacBook to the last version of Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard if you like.

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Mac OS X 10.6 Apple Store Aust

You can change country at the bottom of that page, far right, to your own.

 

[Dgreg63]

Thank you very much for your help. The main reason I was thinking of doing a hard restore was that Safari & the version of Firefox installed are so slow. When I start Safari the icon bounces a few times and I get the menu across the top but the icon then stops bouncing and no window opens. When I try to come out I am told that I am closing it prematurely.

But when I use Firefox going from webpage to webpage its worse than dial up but I am told the ping rate is 10ms and the connection speed and wirelessly it is 14mb and hard wired so to speak I get the full 76mb. I assume there is some setting that I need to change but have no idea where or how.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

You could try hard resetting your router … turn it off at the power for 30 seconds then turn it back on …

Also try repairing Permissions using Disc Utility which is in your Utilities folder … Applications ~> Utilities ~> Disc Utility.

Select your HD in the left pane … Not the first entry, the one below which will be indented, that's your formatted partition.

Also, create another user account in System Preferences & test that out for comparison if the above steps down't yield positive results.