Question mark on an icon in the dock.

I deleted iStat from my Mac using App Zapper, but the icon in the dock remained and now has a question mark on it. I tried to drag it to the trash but it won't move. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

RedSox1424 wrote:
I tried that too. All it says now is, open, show in finder, and open at login.
If you had the utility "Property List Editor" (part of Apple's Developer package) installed, you could probably use it to edit the file <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.doc.plist to eliminate that entry from the "persistent-apps" entry. If you don't, you could drag that file out of its folder, then log out and back in again. The problem with that approach is that you'd have to repopulate your Dock with anything you'd put there manually.

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With regard to the questionmark issue, check out this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1137292&tstart=0
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Applications should not disappear all by themselves.
If they are then that coud indicate serious problems with your hard drive.
Backup everything up as quickly as possible.
Using Disk Utility verify your system disk.
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ralphfromronkonkoma wrote:
we found it in trash and "put back",then icon appeared on her desk top we put it in her dock,now its in dock and desk top,and other usres cannot open safari
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hahah... wow, that was weird, there was a bunch of email marked as unread in one of my folder. But there was no way to knew it, don't have any numbers of unread message beside the folder name... anyway things are ok now.
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By the way sorry my english is not very good, glad you understand me

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