[HM] Bouncing icon in dock

[Duane Murphy]

--- At Tue, 4 May 2004 20:40:14 -0700, Jane Sprando wrote:

>I have decided that I really need to learn how to use OS 10, so you are all
>in for a lot of questions!
>
>My iMac will boot into 9 and 10. I am running 10.2.2 and 9.2.2. Now it is
>running 10. When I run a program that is in 9, Classic opens and that
>program will open. When I am finished, I quit that program, and the icon
>remains in the dock. However, when I want to re-open that same program and I
>click on its icon in the dock, all it does is jump up and down and it won't
>open. So I just restart the iMac. so far today, I have restarted it 7 times!

First, stop restarting your iMac! With OS X there is almost no reason to
restart your Mac. The only reason I restart is because some silly
installer wants to restart or I update the system.

If you have an errant program, click and hold the mouse on the icon for
the app in the dock. Select quit. If the app is not responding it will
say force quit. Select it.

You can still use command-option-esc to kill programs.

For you current problem, I think you're being impatient. :-) I'm guessing
that Classic has quit and you are not not only restarting the application
but also Classic. That can take a while.

Go to System Preferences and choose Classic. Select the Advanced tab. You
can now change the amount of time before Classic quits (goes to sleep).

You should also consider updating. Your OS 10.2.2 is old a crufty. Update
to the latest 10.2 at least, if not 10.3 if you have it. (Panther has
improved a lot of things!)

 ...Duane