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When I tried to quit an application, it became not responding. The Dock and the Force Quit Applications window showed that it's still running, but there's no entry with the application name in Activity Monitor.
Trying force quitting by right-clicking at the dock icons as well as using Cmd-Option-Esc didn't help. Neither did using the command "killall process_name" in Terminal. (It said there's no such process running)
The problem happened to all kinds of application, from Firefox, iTunes, to Microsoft Word, so I think it's the OS fault.
I couldn't restart, shutdown the OS or log out when this happened.
The problem has just arisen earlier this week.
Please help me solve it. Thanks.

Hi vnt;
Well it sounds like something is corrupt. It could either be the preference files or the system. So creating another user is the fastest way to determine which that I know.
Allan

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