Dock process is running at 100%

Hi there,
Im trying to use my imac and its struggling to run anything even writing this email th ecomputer cant keep up. I have run the maintance script to ensure my mac isnt clogged up but this made no difference. The dock is using anywhere from 80% - 200% of the CPU? Please can you help as this is urgent.
Many Thanks

In activity monitor, higlight the Dock process and click Stop button and quit the process. It will kill it off, retrieve the GB or so RAM it has chewed up, and automatocally restart. 9 times of 10 this fixes it. But sometimes as soon as the Dock restarts, it immediately goes back into the pattern. To fix this shut down all apps, and repeat.
What seems to cause the issue, in my case, is transitionig a VMWare 4.x session from full screen to a window and then back again to full screen. But I suspect dpoig this with a Safari session can cause it also. It is a huge bug and I wish Apple would fix it.
Regards

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