Note that you may be asked to login – this is because you may be attempting to restart a system process that needs you to be authenticated as a superuser. On this window, you should Quit for a soft reset, but use Force Quit if that doesn’t work. The select the thread that has crashed and select Quit Process. The best way to open the Activity Monitor is to use Spotlight with the CMD-SpaceBar shortcut on your keyboard (most useful if the Dock has locked up).
Using the Activity Monitorįor more detail on which programs are running use the Activity Monitor. But this is the best and first place to look for crashed processes. This works OK for PROGRAMS that appear, but there are processes that you can’t see in this list. Force Quit Applications windowīy pressing Cmd-Alt-Esc you will pop up this menu and you can select the program that has crashed and Force Quit. It doesn’t happen very often, but right now I’ve got something that is causing one process to have a memory leak and I have to restart it once a day or so to get back that memory. There are at least three ways to restart crashed programs or faulty process that I know of.
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