Lion restarting all applications without warning?

Question

Hi there,
I'm experiencing some extrange behaviour in my Mac Pro (MacPro1,1) with Lion 10.7.2.
All of a sudden, all the active apps (and a couple other more) get restarted, without fully restarting. No warning at all.
I have disabled the 'Restart automatically if the computer freezes' option, but it is not like the computer freezes.
Has anybody experienced anything similar? Any ideas?
Roberto

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand completely. Generally, to quit an application, you go to that application's name in the menu bar at the top of your screen, click on it, then scroll down to Quit (Application Name). Also, the universal Mac keyboard command to quit an application is Command + Q.
Now if you're talking about applications that are not responding, you can go down to your Dock, find that application's icon, right click on it, and then select Force Quit. Or, if you prefer, you can hold down Command + Option and then click ESC. This will bring up a Force Quit Applications window.
And if you're referring to certain application processes that are running and not responding, or running and you want to restart those processes, you'll have to launch the Activity Monitor. It's an application that resides in your Utilities folder. You can view all running processes with this application and force them to quit. However, if you don't know what you are doing, you can force quit certain processes which will automatically trigger a Logout or Restart, which is contrary to what you want to do. You can also, if you're not cautions, quit certain processes that will render your Finder inoperable until a Logout or Restart.
Hope this helps.