loginwindow (Not Responding)

[Dark Dragoon]

This seems to be happening quite a lot,
The computer appears to be functioning correctly, but certain things don't work. e.g. About This Mac.

If I look in the Activity Monitor the process:
loginwindow (Not Responding)
is shown.

If I try to force quit the process, it warns me that it will log me out. However it just freezes the computer.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[mad jew]

Try creating a new user account and see if the problem occurs there too.

 

[Dark Dragoon]

The problem occurs with the new user account, though I notice that "rcd (Not Responding)" has appeared as well.

It also occurs in my admin account.

It takes a while for loginwindow to become "Not responding", and I can't work out what is causing it.

 

[mad jew]

Okay, thanks for that. Try dragging a file named com.apple.loginwindow.plist to the Desktop. Now, it'll be in the Preferences folder for OSX. There'll be a similarly named file in your Home folder's Preferences folder, but don't worry about that one.

 

[Dark Dragoon]

Well I've been running a few programs and loginwindow is ok so far, though I'll keep an eye on it as sometimes it seems to take a few days to go wrong.

Thanks for the help.