My mac's desktop is gray, the dock wont show up, nor mission control or launchpad work. What should I do
I recently logged in to my mac and while the finder relaunched it got frozen and is now gray. The dock does not show up or work. The launchpad doesnt work nor does mission control. I can only open applications from a finder window. The apps dont even work in fullscreen. Ive tried restarting it, logging in to another account, and booting in safe mode. None work. I will try to move my things to my other computer for the time.
What should I do?
Run through this list of fixes, if your getting in do #9 as soon as possible.
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