In Out of Office, I said:

Due to a variety of reasons I’ll get to later, I had to reset my laptop to factory settings and then reinstall the OS.

Well, it’s later and I’ll explain (not that it’s important, but for the few that might have interested:

The Admin account to my Mac laptop needed repairs. The Mission Control and Launchpad functions randomly launched when I type ever since I upgraded to Mac OS Sonoma in Sept 2023.

What I’d done from quite dilegent searching and taking suggestions from people seemingky more knowledgeable than I was:

• gone into System Settings and unticked every keyboard and trackpad option that controls those and other functions. (when I say “every,” I mean “every.”)
• rebooted in Safe Mode
• deleted cleaning, AntiVirus and optimization apps
• reinstalled MacOS Sequoia (yes, it continued with the OS upgrade in 2024. Didn’t exist in Monterey or Ventura.)

The problem remains. Except:

• When I created a test user account. Hence, the only remaining culprit is the admin account.

The problem seemingly disappeared when I upgraded to the most recent MacOS, “Tahoe.” Until it reappeared 5 days later. I went back to searching and found nothing I hadn’t already tried and so I finally resolved the issue this way:

• Did a Time Machine backup
• Reset the laptop to factory settings and then downloaded Tahoe all over again.

That was October 2nd. It’s been 21 days since then and the thing hasn’t happened since. I declare the problem soved. Don’t know what caused it, but I don’t care. 

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