Jason Fox

Ever have Expose freeze up on you? Command-TAB stops working, Spaces stops working, the Dock stops working, show desktop stops working, show windows stops working; you’re trapped!  Well, if you happen to have a terminal window open or can launch one, fear not!  Simply issue the following command (make sure to use a capital ‘D’) and you’re golden.  No restart required!

$ killall Dock

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If you receive the “File system formatter failed” error message while trying to partition a large hard drive using Disk Utility in OSX you need to change the partition type to GUID.  Click the Options… button at the bottom of the partition list and select the GUID Partition Table: