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The app is deleted and moved to the Trash, but be very careful not to empty the Trash until you are 100% sure that everything is working OK, and you haven’t deleted any critical system files by mistake!

Select the app, right-click and then Move to Trash from the popup menu (or just COMMAND + DELETE).

Open the folder where the application resides – it’s usually in your Applications folder.

If it’s there, highlight the name and hit the Quit Process button

Search the Process Name column for the app in question.

The full list of running applications and processes are displayed

Change the filter at the top of Activity Monitor to All Processes.

As a precaution, use Activity Monitor to see whether the application is active.

Quit the application if it’s already open to make sure the app you are about to delete is not already running.

This tutorial explains how to completely remove a program manually. Always remember that before you delete any app, read its user manual or README files carefully to check if it has an automatic uninstaller, or any special manual steps that must be taken to fully remove the app and all its traces.ĭespite the availability of “cleaner” utilities that promise to completely remove unwanted applications and optimise your computer, they are not essential as the procedure is really quite simple. OS X Lion provides an even simpler and almost foolproof method to uninstall apps, which is covered at the end of this tutorial.

Occasionally, it’s desirable to uninstall unwanted or troublesome apps, or simply those which are taking up too much disk space and cluttering up your hard drive. Uninstalling applications in all versions of Mac OS X can be accomplished with relative ease, especially compared to Windows which has an established but somewhat old-fashioned method of adding or removing programs using the control panel.įortunately for Mac users, the vast majority of applications can simply be moved to the Trash and deleted with no repercussions in most cases deleting an application’s executable file is equivalent to uninstalling it, and deleted apps tend not to leave behind much in the way of preference files or settings. Many Mac users will have dozens or even hundreds of apps installed on their computer.