Remove recently installed apps If you've installed apps recently and your MacBook Air freezes whenever you open these apps, you need to take care of them. Click Update Now or Upgrade Now to update your Mac to the latest macOS version. Windows, you have CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which seems to recover from anyĬrash short of a full blue-screen). Open the Apple menu > System Preferences > Software Update. So far - the only thing I can think of to fix this is hold down the.Mac (No envelope-pushing applications or modifications). X and apps), and I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary with my Any idea what might cause this? I'm up to date on all my updates (OS.I haven't noticed a pattern of when it happens (e.g., it doesn't typically happen soon after restarting). Every time I jump between apps, LibreOffice freezes on me and I have to wait 5-10 minutes or long just to get back to my project I am using Mac OSX Sierra.

I should note that this happens very infrequently - perhaps once or twice a month. Then, just after the startup sound, hold the D key. The iMac also doesn't seem to respond to the keyboard at all. It's pretty easy to get working - insert the disk, then restart. Launchpad and Mission Control don't work. In other words - even though I can move the pointer - I can't click any buttons, menu items, change the focus on any windows, or interact with the desktop, dock, menu, or any running app. HOWEVER, I can continue to control the mouse pointer perfectly. Recently, I've noticed a strange behavior on my iMac (Yosemite 10.10.4, Late 2009).Įverything freezes completely - it's totally unresponsive.

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