Pop up window on dock freezes...

When I click on an icon in the dock, the pop up window freezes...(Keep In Dock, Open at Login, Show in finder, etc... for example), the window will freeze and I get no action, nothing happens in the dock at this point...Everything else on my computer operates just fine even with a frozen open pop up window from the dock...help?
Chris

Hi Chris,
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, when it finishes then move this file to the Desktop, then reboot & setup your Dock again...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

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