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I recently had a need to install a Lexmark printer software/drive on my system. While there were no problems at the time, shortly following my return to my regular printer and deletion of the Lexmark printer selectivity, I encountered the spinning beachball at various times plus was unable to use the keyboard shortcut force quit - the only way out was to turn the machine off and restart then uninstall their software.
I had encountered this identical problem several years ago when I was attempting to setup a Lexmark printer on an iMac 700 probably under 10.4, where the software was co-opting USB #1 on the computer. This was determined by extensive investigation and troubleshooting with Apple Support. It was determined then, and confirmed by Lexmark, that there was something in the software that was incompatible with Apple and it now looks like they have brought that same capability back into use.
Since there is no longer an information channel to Apple, I am using this method in hopes it will be noted by the tech staff for their consideration.
Sparkgapper

It seems I am still having problems. The following is what has happened over the last several days:
Computer problem and troubleshooting
7/3-4          Almost daily following normal turn on of computer - system turned off at night - system seems to load properly except unable to access Dock which should be hidden on left side of screen. There seems to be a short period of time between desk top coming up and spinning continuous beach ball whereby access to applications (usually accessed through Dock) through Disk Icon (I have it on the desktop). I was able to resume normal operation on the first day by launching Safari but the second day this did not work. Also, on the first day I used Lexmark's uninstaller to supposedly remove their software however there seems to be no way to confirm the ALL was removed.
7/4          After turn on and first crash and reboot I brought up Activity Monitor and after noting the unusual activity I brought up Grab and did four screen shots that hopefully can be used for analysis of what is going on. After two more reboots, using power button, system returned to normal.
7/5          When opening initially I immediately opened Activity Monitor (AM) and noted the Dock processes but no time was allocated initially. Changed AM from All, heirically to Active Processes and Dock no longer shows. Attempted to bring up Grab but it is no longer available under AM but was able to locate on using Finder Help (Taking a picture of your entire screen) link (Open Grab). However attempts to capture screen resulted in only the Help screen showing in the resulting photos even though both were fully visible on the screen. Activity monitor finally froze - absolutely no changes on AM including the Graphic representation. Attempted to use all methods to do a Force Quit but none worked, no response from "Point and click" and no response from OA-Option-Esc.
Reboot (turned off using power button).
AM came up following login and again no Dock on AM. Attempted keyboard force quit but still no response. Reboot and this time all seemed to be normal following login.
7/6          Turn on this morning (0830) brought almost identical results as yesterday. Note unable to use Grab again. Also note that two processes, iavd and ReportCrash were the most active processes following launch of AM - system had been up for several minutes before bringing up AM. Also note that there was no Dock process showing on Active Processes (AP). System froze and performed hard reboot.
Still no Dock in AP with ReportCrash the most active process after a short period of activity. hard reboot.
This time almost immediately the system showing problems with short pauses (freezes?) of the AM and ReportCrash still the most active process (20-40%). Reboot using Apple > Restart.
System seems to come up as normal with Dock showing immediately on AM (100% CPU) and Dock accessable on screen with no problems noted at this time.
Anyone have any ideas?
Sparkgapper

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