Force Quit never works

[fjs08]

Hi,

Force Quit never works anymore for anything?? Any thoughts?? Finder just went down, the little beach ball was spinning, and I tried to relaunch Finder. Nothing happened. Mail does the same thing, as does Safari and Firefox.

Frank

 

[richard.mac]

try option right clicking on their dock icon and clicking force quit?

 

[dogbone]

For really stubborn to quit apps you can use the Activity monitor for force quit, (Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor) it will definitely work.

But then you need to find out what is causing the mayhem. How much free HD space do you have, and what about ram?

 

[skierdude]

try option right clicking on their dock icon and clicking force quit?

mabe that would work. Never mind it doesn't work i just tried it. Try option esc.

 

[mad jew]

Are all these apps freezing often? Your problem may lie deeper than simply not being able to Force Quit. Keep Activity Monitor open and showing you All Processes. Which (if any) processes are red?

 

[fjs08]

>>Are all these apps freezing often? Your problem may lie deeper than simply not being able to Force Quit. Keep Activity Monitor open and showing you All Processes. Which (if any) processes are red?<,

I've had my Mac Book Pro since last fall. It "crashes" loads more than I ever remember my Powerbook crashing.

I usually end up just powering down and doing a cold reboot. Today, and occasionally, the Mac is really hot underneath. It does that occasionally, but it still crashes even though it may not be hot.

Frank

 

[fjs08]

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B01
SMC Version: 1.12f5
Serial Number: W86460SKW0H
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

I have 65 gig available on my HD out of 111.47.
46.27 GB is occupied.

No windows on it either.

Frank

Frank

 

[mad jew]

Okay, well what third party hardware and software do you have? Maybe post us the contents of your crash log(s) in Console in the Utilities folder, too.