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Cmd-Tab suddenly stopped working, and my Dock is unresponsive, what do I do?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202634305 views
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command ⌘+tab⇥ and my Exposé shortcuts have stopped working, and clicking/mousing over dock icons has no effect. What's wrong? What can I do to get things back?

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Fix for: Cmd-Tab suddenly stopped working, and my Dock is unresponsive, what do I do?

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Your Dock has become unresponsive. It's rare, but it does sometimes happen. To fix it you just need to kill the Dock app and it will automatically restart. To kill the Dock: Go to Applications ➔ Utilities ➔ Terminal.app Type If that doesn't work, ty…

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