LaunchPad keeps appearing automatically?

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LaunchPad keeps appearing automatically?

My Mac is running El Capitan 10.11.3

Everything works fine. Out of a sudden, the LaunchPad starts to appear automatically. It appears suddenly and I press ESC or click mouse to make it go away, it will appear again after couple of seconds or sometimes longer, 10-30 seconds, or minutes. Sometimes it appears so frequent to bother my work.

My keyboard shortcut for LaunchPad is disabled, no hot corners are set for it.

I actually don't use LanuchPad at all. It's not even in my dock.

I feel really strange about this. I am thinking to re-install my Mac. But it's the last option. Anyone can help on this? (I have been using Mac for 5 years. This is the first time I see this)

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Jan 31, 2016 12:50 AM

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Jason L

Community Specialist

Feb 1, 2016 8:42 AM in response to appstudio_tw

Howdy appstudio_tw,

From what I gather, Launchpad is unexpectedly opening on your iMac and it's not occuring because of a hot corners preference or keyboard shortcut.

The article linked below which provides a lot of great information that can help you isolate the issue to hardware or software and it provides a lot of great troubleshooting tips that can help you resolve the issue.

Isolating issues in Mac OS X - Apple Support

Cheers.

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