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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1808416" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Well, one place to look is in System Preferences>Users & Groups>your account and look at what's in the Login Items list for your account. Those things start when you log in, so one of them may be a suspect. Generally, anything that claims to add functions to Finder is a potential suspect as well, including things like Commander One, that adds panes to Finder. If the problem were consistent, you could try booting in Safe Mode, but given that it is not predictable, that may or may not help. Another way to get at it is to think about what you were doing just before the problem first occurred, or just before it came back. Have/had you installed anything new? Run some program? Computers generally don't change on their own, something triggered it, you just have to figure out what the trigger is. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I can't see your system, so the search for the culprit is up to you to do. One thought might be to get Etrecheck, run it and then post the results here. That way we can see what is loading at boot and what extensions are installed to see if there are any candidates in that listing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1808416, member: 396914"] Well, one place to look is in System Preferences>Users & Groups>your account and look at what's in the Login Items list for your account. Those things start when you log in, so one of them may be a suspect. Generally, anything that claims to add functions to Finder is a potential suspect as well, including things like Commander One, that adds panes to Finder. If the problem were consistent, you could try booting in Safe Mode, but given that it is not predictable, that may or may not help. Another way to get at it is to think about what you were doing just before the problem first occurred, or just before it came back. Have/had you installed anything new? Run some program? Computers generally don't change on their own, something triggered it, you just have to figure out what the trigger is. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I can't see your system, so the search for the culprit is up to you to do. One thought might be to get Etrecheck, run it and then post the results here. That way we can see what is loading at boot and what extensions are installed to see if there are any candidates in that listing. [/QUOTE]
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