Hutch2016 wrote:
There must be some sort of setting that has been corrupted or changed somehow. Please advise. I am running a 13" MacBook Pro running Mac OS Monterey Version 12.6.9.
I installed Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office for MAC. Other than thiose two new things, nothing has changed.
I have looked on google searches for this problem, but only found a few and most start talking about software and changing the system preferences.
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS