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Q: 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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  • by Jason L,

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

  • by appstudio_tw,

    appstudio_tw appstudio_tw Feb 6, 2016 5:33 AM in response to Jason L
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    Feb 6, 2016 5:33 AM in response to Jason L

    I re-installed my iMac with latest El Capitan. (10.11.3)

     

    It was a clean install. The disk was formatted. Nothing but Mac OS.

     

    I installed a few regular apps, such as Google Chrome, XCode.

     

    For the first 5 days, it seemed very promising because the LaunchPad problem was gone and never seen again, not even once.

     

    But today (5 days after the clean install), now it starts to happen again.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Feb 6, 2016 5:00 PM in response to appstudio_tw
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    Feb 6, 2016 5:00 PM in response to appstudio_tw

    Try a reset.

     

    Launchpad Reset

  • by appstudio_tw,

    appstudio_tw appstudio_tw Feb 6, 2016 5:55 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Feb 6, 2016 5:55 PM in response to Eric Root

    @Eric Root

     

    Tried the rest in your LaunchPad reset link.

     

    The problem remains.

     

    I guess it's a hardware problem. But how could hardware be related to launching LaunchPad automatically?!!? something I just don't get

     

    My current solution is to buy a new iMac.

     

    I have persuaded my wife by showing her this problem after I clean-installed it.