Command P keyboard shortcut broken

Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts

JohnMRP wrote:

I do have Command-P listed in Application shortcuts

Listed to do what?

JohnMRP wrote:

Command-P is listed to Print

You probably should remove it.

Are you sure you haven't installed any macro or shortcut manager, such as Spark, Keyboard Maestro, Quicksilver, Butler, etc?

If no, then the next thing to suspect is a corrupt pref file. Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no single repository for keyboard shortcuts. I believe some are saved in com.apple.universalaccess.plist and com.apple.systempreferences.plist. So I'd start by removing these two and restarting. (Don't delete them, just move them to the desktop; you may have to reset some network and other system prefs.)

JohnMRP wrote:

I just restarted, and Command-P still brings up Parental Controls.

Then I'm fresh out of ideas. Since it only happens in one user account, it's something in the user domain; since it doesn't happen when booting in Safe mode, it must be some third-party software, possibly a faceless process started automatically on logging in. Check for items you don't know about in Login Items, in <~/Library/StartupItems>, in <~/Library/LaunchAgents> and </Library/LaunchAgents>. Use Activity Monitor and check if any of the listed processes could be responsible for this.

JohnMRP wrote:

I don't find Library/StartupItems in the User Library

There doesn't have to be one.

com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

Those items are the Acrobat update agents, they can't be involved in this.

Can you say anymore about how I would use Activity Monitor to troubleshoot this?

This doc

Using Activity Monitor

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342>

discusses using AM for monitoring memory usage, but it gives the basic idea. You are interested in two items -- the "My Processes" pop-up menu and the list of processes.

Sort them by name, as shown in the pic, then go through them one by one. You're trying to identify the process responsible for the issue. You may copy the list and paste it into a text editor. Then eliminate those whose functions you can figure out. From the pop-up menu, choose System Processes. That will give you another list; as a first approach, you can eliminate all System Processes from your list. Once you've got the list down to those you don't know and aren't system processes, if you can't find anything obvious (eg, "HotKey Server"), then it's Google time.

In your accounts system preferences, what do you have listed in your Login Items?

Does this problem occur if you log into another account? If it does please post the files you see in the following directories (in your boot disk, not your home directory):

/Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchDaemons

/Library/StartupItems

Try removing SFCoreHelper from your login items.

"Accounts system preferences" was the system preferences Accounts panel. You got that right.

You didn't post the contents of the other /Library directories I asked for but since you say you have no problems with other accounts never mind. That /Library stuff would affect all accounts.

JohnMRP wrote:

Activity Monitor freezes with the spinning ball.

That's a problem.

Uninstall SF 2. Disabling the login item might be enough, but it's best to uninstall it. Restart, test the issue again, as well as Activity Monitor. (Make sure to have a backup, you might lose your font collections.)