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My Mac demands I sacrifice a program to it every 10 minutes or so. What should I do?

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Mar 15, 2026383 views
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Problem

Several times today, my Mac (10.6 Snow Leopard) has frozen up. The cursor has become fixed (movable, but the cursor does not change), the screen unresponsive (nothing highlights when I roll over it, I can't interact with any program, or the menu bar). This problem has occurred while working in a nu…

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alt-cmd + esc

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Fix for: My Mac demands I sacrifice a program to it every 10 minutes or so. What should I do?

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my first suspect with random crashes like you have is bad memory. either by design or by chance, i suspect that a critical part of the OS or an app is getting loaded in to the same memory address, and that segment of memory is bad. test your RAM!

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