Expand the Activity Monitor WindowĬlick the green button at the top-right corner to view all hidden columns. They’ve only been hidden or pushed far too much to the right. If Process Name is the only column listed in the column title bar, other columns aren’t missing. If that doesn’t help, restart your Mac and check if the columns have been restored. Note that the SystemUIServer does restart after it’s killed in this way.Before you proceed, you could try force-closing Activity Monitor. Some menu bar programs have system threads that aren’t always perfect. It doesn’t always work though.)ĭoesn’t happen often, but when it does….
(you can also restart the Finder by option (=alt) + rightclicking the Finder icon in the Dock and selecting Relaunch. Terminal Commands for Restarting Crashed Programs Software Open a Terminal windows using the Spotlight by Cmd-Space Using the CLI / Terminal to Stop Process. Of course, if you are attempting to save data before rebooting then, by all means, keep going. If you are a novice computer person, then should probably consider rebooting your computer instead of killing processes. Note that you may be asked to login – this is because you may be attempting to restart a system process that needs you to be authenticated as a superuser. On this window, you should Quit for a soft reset, but use Force Quit if that doesn’t work. The select the thread that has crashed and select Quit Process. The best way to open the Activity Monitor is to use Spotlight with the CMD-SpaceBar shortcut on your keyboard (most useful if the Dock has locked up). Using the Activity Monitorįor more detail on which programs are running use the Activity Monitor. But this is the best and first place to look for crashed processes. This works OK for PROGRAMS that appear, but there are processes that you can’t see in this list. Force Quit Applications windowīy pressing Cmd-Alt-Esc you will pop up this menu and you can select the program that has crashed and Force Quit. It doesn’t happen very often, but right now I’ve got something that is causing one process to have a memory leak and I have to restart it once a day or so to get back that memory.
There are at least three ways to restart crashed programs or faulty process that I know of.
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