Remove HP advisor dock
Every time I power on my HP G56 laptop, the HP Advisor Dock appears.
I haven't been able to find out how to uninstal this and as I have no use for this, do not want it appearing on the desktop each time on start up.
How can I be rid of this permanently as I can't see it serves any useful purpose.
Thanks
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Click the HP Advisor button - upper left, and select PC Dashboard.
Click the Settings button in the lower left of the Dashboard window.
Remove the check from launch the Advisor...
Click Apply exit out of HP Advisor.
If you never want to use it and want a little bit of hard drive space back, you can uninstall through Control Panel.
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*Hi Joseph, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
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So I recently updated my macbook to newer software and i had to also download a newer version of pages, keynote and numbers. These became new icons in my launchpad so I dragged them down to my dock. I restarted my computer so that the other 3 old icons would disappear but they remained. I deleted them then emptied trash and have become question marks now. I still can't seem to remove them from my dock? Any help? Thank you.
When I right click on the the question mark and hover over the "Options" it does not come up with anything.
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Unable to add or remove items from dock
First, sorry if this is a duplicate post - I did a number of searches and came up with lots of "frozen dock" and other bugs that weren't this one. There seemed to be pages and pages and after several I just gave up and posted myself.
For the past few weeks I have noticed that I have been unable to remove any items from the dock. It is not that I get an error message when I try to remove them, they just don't budge.
If an item is in the doc and the program is active, and I ctrl-click on the item - there is no longer a "Remove from dock" option.
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The lack of error message almost makes me think I have set some "feature" without realizing it - rather than encountering a bug.
However, I would very much like it to go away anyway
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Powerbook G4 15" Mac OS X (10.4.6)It sounds like you might have the 'contents-immutable' setting enabled on your "Dock". The only GUI available to an OS X client machine to adjust this setting is under "Parental Controls" in the "Accounts" pref pane - if your account is listed there as "managed", then it's possible that it may have become activated, in which case it should be possible to log out of the account, then in to an "admin" account and change the setting from there.
Unlike "parental controls" which manage the "Dock" through 'mcx_settings', it is also possible to set the property directly in the "com.apple.dock.plist" file in the user's "~/Library/Preferences" folder. Usually this wouldn't be expected to happen by accident - third party software is often involved when hidden settings are suddenly found to have been enabled.
If 'contents-immutable' has been set in the ".plist" file, one way to get rid of it is to move the "com.apple.dock.plist" file out of the "~/Library/preferences" folder, logging out and back in. The "Dock" will revert to default settings so it will be necessary to reconfigure it again. Alternatively, try opening "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and entering these commands:<pre>defaults delete com.apple.dock contents-immutable
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I would like to remove the Finder icon from my dock.
I know people are going to ask "Why?" Simply because, I don't like it being there.
I know Finder is always open and I know to close it would cause problems. I don't want to close it, I am just wondering if there is a way to remove, or hide it, from the dock so I don't have to see it.
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tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
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perform action "AXShowMenu"
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