Apps that appear in that center pane will automatically open when you start or reboot your Mac. If the Hide box is checked, they will load in the background. To begin with, you should have relatively few items in this list but as time goes on and you install more stuff onto your Mac, the list will increase. The 16-inch MacBook Pro finds room for noticeably bigger and more impressive speakers than you get on either the MacBook Air or the 13-inch MacBook Pro or almost any laptop we've tried, really.
The plugins and extensions can help to reduce the size of an application and easily add new features. However, if you get the useless plugins and extensions, or the ones you never installed, they would slow down your Mac. Guide to Uninstall Apps on Mac Thoroughly HotHow to Fix Mac Running Slowly Problem.
To quit (close) a Mac app normally, choose Quit from the app's menu in the menu bar, or press Command (⌘)-Q. If the app doesn't quit, follow these steps to force the app to quit.
How to force an app to quit
Press these three keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). Or choose Force Quit from the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen. (This is similar to pressing Control-Alt-Delete on a PC.)
Then select the app in the Force Quit window and click Force Quit.
You can even force the Finder to quit, if it stops responding: Select Finder in the Force Quit window, then click Relaunch.
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This article shows how to Force Quit any Mac application using only keyboard shortcuts. Any application can be quit – not just the front-most app. This is the fastest way to select any Mac app to terminate it immediately.
These instructions work for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and – I’ve just tested – I can confirm it works on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion as well.
Keyboard shortcuts can be necessary to force an app to exit, as a hung app may prevent access to the force quit function through the Apple menu.
Here’s the process to force quit a frozen app on OSX using only keyboard shortcuts:
- Press the force quit keyboard shortcut Command-Option-Esc: Hold down the Command and Option keys and press the Esc (escape) key. Release all the keys. A window titled Force Quit Applicationsshould appear, like this:
The Force Quit Applications Window on Mac OS X 10.6
- Select the app: Use the up and down arrow keys to select (highlight) the frozen app you want to exit. Here we select VLC:
- Press Return:This will choose the highlighted app to kill. A confirmation window will appear:
Do you want to force VLC to quit?
- Press Return again: This is equivalent to pressing the Force Quit button. The kills the app, in our case VLC. All being well, your unresponsive Mac app has now been terminated. Notice VLC is no longer in the list of apps that can be quit:
- Press Esc: Pressing the escape key will cause the Force Quit Applications to close.
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If the Mac app you want to force to quit at the front, i.e. it’s name shows in the menu bar, there’s a keyboard shortcut that can kill it in one step. To see how, visit Force Quit a Mac App Instantly with a Single Keyboard Shortcut.
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