My new Mini locks up daily. Applecare thinks its 3rd party software, any guesses?

I have completed a full erase and restore. Mac seemed to work fine. Then, I re-installed a minimum number of programs. Mini is locking up again. Are any of the following programs known for stalling out the OS?
Spotify
Pages
Keynote
Dropbox
Logos bible software 4
Splash-top Streamer
X-mind Mindmapping software
Flash player plug-in
I also copied over docs and pics/movies from backup.
Thanks

Try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application uninstaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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