Dock quit and wont open anymore.

Just a while ago my dock froze. I went to Activity Monitor, clicked on the dock process, and clicked quit on the top left corner in the window. The dock did not restart. I logged off and logged back in and my desktop had a different background (the one i have for the login screen). Then I restarted the computer, and now besides the dock being gone, I can't even put a desktop picture, now the background is blue. I went to System Prefrences and I checked to see if i had a background chosen, and I did, but again, there's no wallpaper, its blue. I also can't minimize windows, and on System Prefrences on the dock section it won't even let me select if I want it on the left side, right, or bottom. When I open the prefrences for the dock "bottom" is selected. When I click left or right, it deselects the option already selected and the three options are left blank. If someone has a solution for this problem, please help me.

Just exactly what the Dock's involvement is with the Desktop picture is I don't know. But I do know that when the Dock quits and restarts my Desktop picture changes (I have it set to change randomly on login), so the Dock is involved. I wonder if something strange has happened to the Dock plist? Try deleting it:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist"
Log out and back in and see if you can reset the preferences for the Dock normally.
Francine
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