Dock requires two attempts to open

Seems like Mavericks has quite a few glitches and a annoying glitch is activating the dock. It takes me two attempts for it to come up. Any suggestions on how to correct this problem or even better yet, how to remove the Mavericks upgrade. Mavericks glitches make me think and miss Steve. He would have never let a application be released unless it was perfect.

The slow hidden dock was fixed with the latest 10.9.1 upgrade.  Some users have also reported that the slow dock was fixed by installing  the trial version of the  AutoCAD 2014.

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