Command-Tab & Dock not working right

I'm talking mainstream apps not showing up in the cmd-tab display. Usually Finder and one other are there, the rest not.
In the Dock, apps which have been successfully quit still show their open dot until clicked on, whereupon, the dot disappears. Dock problem is constant. Cmd-tab problem is intermittent, about 50% of the time.

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