At the time of freezing at first my cursor would trace a path of grey squares everywhere it went, an intermittent problem in the past, but now the grey squares are gone, but nothing responds to my cursorclicksshort cuts wheel spins on.

This little-known keyboard shortcut is the easiest, fastest and best way to force a Mac application to quit.

Force Quit is a Mac feature to force a Mac program to exit when it wont respond to these normal ways to quit.

For example, if Mac Mail locks up while retrieving mail, you can terminate it, and start it again.

If you want to stop an application which is not at the front, see Force Any Mac App to Quit using Only Keyboard Shortcuts.

There is around a three second delay until the Mac kills the app, to prevent this feature being applied accidentally.

Unlike the kill-the-foreground-app-in-one-keyboard-shortcut, this shortcut puts up a window so you can choose the app to kill.

Dont unplug storage devices or the network as you could lose (more) data this way.

These suggestions are the last ditch efforts of a desperate man or woman.

I wouldnt bother trying these unless you have some unsaved work that you desperately want to get to, to save it.

If this is happening to you, comment, and Ill explain this and post the instructions.

This is so much easier and faster than using the Force Quit window, since hung applications are rarely in the background.

Ive just been killing the power restarting, but I know thats terrible for it and it doesnt help anything except give me a little more time before it freezes again.

Does this sound like a virus If so, what do you recommend Ive had to restart the computer multiple times a day just to keep working, which is a huge pain while I try to work on my photography business.

Thanks.

This may well be the first question Ive had from Hawaii Im sorry to hear your being troubled by the spinning beachball of death.

For example, it could be a faulty video card or failing hard disk.

There are other possibilities, such as your softwares gotten corrupted.

If your hard disk does fail or if your Mac stops working all together, youll need a backup of your work.

Having a backup also gives you the possibility to keep working on another computer if you decide to put your Mac in for service.

I suggest using TimeMachine an a external hard drive to backup your iMac.

Does it happen before the spinning beach ball of death, at the same time or when you kill the power.

Have been to one on one or mac genius 7 times for problems.

Now I have the spinning wheel of death for 3 days everything is frozen closing rebooting does not change anything.

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