Hi Matt, have you tried using a different mouse? Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad
> On 10 Nov. 2016, at 5:26 pm, Matt Falvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi I have a 2.8 Ghz Intel Core i7 iMac with 20GB of Ram operating OS X > 10.10.5. Just lately it has been freezing. All the applications stop, I can’t > command tab from one to another, I can’t command option escape to see if any > application has crashed, the only think that works is the mouse, which moves > around, but cannot activate anything. - Have just restarted again after > another freeze and this time the mouse was able to move the draft of this > email around and that was all. I could not take it off of this email and even > when the email passed behind other open windows on both screens it was always > being controlled by my mouse. The mouse could not control anything else. This > time I did try Command Option Escape and the window did down, but the Force > Quit button even though blue and appearing active did not activate and as > mentioned previously the mouse could only control the movement of the email. > Again I had to press the button on the back to close down the iMac and again > to restart it and now it is all working again. > > The only option I have is to press the button on the back to turn the iMac > off and then press it again to turn it back on. It restarts without any > problems and worked fine until it happens again. > > I had a look in the Activity Monitor application to see if I could find > anything there yesterday and again today, one thing that stuck out was under > memory https://www.google.com.au was using 14.48GB and more sometimes of > memory, everything else is using low to mid hundred MB’s. Under CPU > https://www.google.com.au is using 101.4 %CPU. I don’t know if this is > relevant, but as I only have Safari, CS5 and Mail open I am wondering why I > should be having any connection to google? - Just worked out why it is trying > to connect to google, I had a failed google.maps window open, (when I say > failed it could not find the address I entered for it to search), so for some > strange reason it redirected itself to the above address. But why? > > The other thing I noticed is recently I have been receiving a message, that > Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly, sometimes this happens before > everything freezes other times it happens in isolation. > > I have gone to Disk Utility and Repaired Disk Permissions apart from that I > am at a loss of how to fix it. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks > > Matt. > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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