![]() Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Of course I don't know what is going on with the CPU, so I need you to try this: It's not perfect but it is certainly less troublesome. I just wanted to ask some advice on here to see if there was anything I could try before I begin this laborious process which will put my laptop out of action for a while.Ĭhrome is the worst of them all. I took it in to the repair shop for a second time, and they said that something had corrupted the system files, and that I should completely wipe the laptop, only restore my user date from time-machine, then install all the apps again one by one to try and work out which one had corrupted everything. Neither of these things solved the problem, if anything the crashing seems to happen more often now then it ever did. ![]() I then took the laptop in to a repair shop, I the first time they replaced the logic board. So far I have been in contact with Apple support and have done everything they suggested, right up until re-installing Mavericks. It appears that this can happen whilst using a variety of different programs, I haven't been able to spot any patterns as such. It can usually be unfrozen by restarting, or if I go away for 10 minutes it will sometimes have sorted itself out. Generally I'm not able to force close anything. Usually I get the spinning beachball and will become unable to click anything, then move the mouse at all.
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