Removing windows xp from my imac

I want to remove windows xp home edition from my imac

I recently had XP in Boot Camp and then installed it again in VM ware. I just dragged the Boot Camp partition into the waste bin to get rid of it and XP

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HT5634 how can i remove windows 8 from my macbook pro

how can i remove windows 8 from macbook pro

Open the Boot Camp Assistant in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and return the drive to a single partition setup.
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I need urgent help to remove unwanted adware from my iMac. Help!

I need urgent help to remove unwanted adware from my iMac. I have somehow got green underline in text ads, pop up ads that come in from the sides of the screen and ads that pop up selling similar products all over the page wherever I go. Its getting worse and I have researched and researched to no avail. I am really hestitant to download any software to remove whatever it is that is causing this problem. I have removed and reinstalled chrome. I have cleared Chrome and Safari cookies. Checked extensions, there are none to remove. I need to find an answer on how to get rid of these ads. Help please!

You installed the "DownLite" trojan, perhaps under a different name. Remove it as follows.
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "VSearch" selected. Drag the selected item to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/Jack.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Jack
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
Some of these items may be absent, in which case you'll get a message that the file can't be found. Skip that item and go on to the next one.
Restart and empty the Trash. Don't try to empty the Trash until you have restarted.
From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that the DownLite developer has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing, has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. It must be said that this failure of oversight is inexcusable and has seriously compromised the value of Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You cannot rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

How do I remove a DVD from my imac disk drive? It's stuck.

How do I remove a DVD from my imac disk drive? It's stuck.

Restart while holding down the eject key or use the Terminal command drutil tray eject

Remove OS 9 from my imac?

How can I remove OS 9 from my imac? I have no need for it since I have OS X installed.
Thanks,
Mac Ray

Hi Mac Ray,
Put these folders in the trash:
System Folder (NOT System)
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Empty the trash. If the system complains that some files are in use and won't delete them (usually the fonts within the OS 9 System Folder), then open the System Folder and put all of the contents in the trash. Restart the Mac. Then put the empty System Folder in the trash. You should then be able to empty the trash.

I want to remove the VMware from my iMac intel will this remove the wind7 also cleanly ?

Hi, I know where to go uninstall the VMware (fusion), im just concerned that if i remove VMware it wont remove the windows7 cleanly, I never actually use it, someone thought it would be a good idea for me at the time, as I was new to Mac, well I had no issues with getting along with mac I was among some of the first to have computers in the schools, things are very similar so I never required the use of it.
Also I'm wanting to know what happens to my VMware, as I didn't install it myself just wondering if I can remove it from the trash and burn it to a cd ? for use at a later time, or would it be simpler and easy to just remove windows and leave the VMware Fusion installed, if so how much room is VMware using. I would really like to claim back that extra memory for use with my iMac.
I Thought It would be best to ask some advice before I make a silly mistake. So any info regarding this matter would be helpful thanks
OS X
Version 10.8
Build 12A269
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Thank you for that, i am intending to upgrade my memory but not till end of month, So what your saying is to remove the windows from the VMware and if thats the case may I ask how i would do that. Sorry I just dont want to make a mistake and regret it later. Thanks for your help and advice Samberl awesome

Remove windows Installation from Old WD hard drive and Install Fresh Copy on the New One.

Hi Community! I just bought a new WD Blue 1 TB hard drive, my old hard drive is WD Blue caviar 500 GB, running on Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit.
There are two things I wish to do: 1. Firstly, if it's possible, I would like to copy some videos, images, music etc. from my OLD Drive to the new one.
Please note that, I don't have an external disk to do it, I know that would've been less complicated, but that's not an option at this point. 2. Secondly, once that is done, if possible, I want to remove windows 7 installation from my old hard drive, re-partition it to make it just the storage drive, and finally install
fresh copy of windows 7- 64 bit to the new Hard drive.
Please note that, my old Hard drive is installed on windows 7- 32 bit and now I want to install a fresh copy of Windows 7-64bit instead of 32bit, because I am upgrading my
configuration with better ones.
I am adding 4 GB corsair vengeance ram to my 2 GB corsair ram, so that is 6 GB in total.
I am adding 1 TB hard disk to my 500 GB Hard disk, so that is 1500 GB.
Both my processor and mother board supports 64 bit.
Intel® Pentium® Processor G2020 (3M Cache, 2.90 GHz) And this Mother board - "Biostar H61MGV3"I know that you could clone the partition and migrate the installation from one hard drive to another using the Acronis True Image WD Edition Software, but I don't want that.
In simple words, say I have a dos computer, I installed my 1TB WD hard drive, installed a fresh copy of windows 7-64bit. So my computer is up and running. Now, I have another hard
drive which I wish to use, that is 500GB WD, but it has Windows 7-32 bit installed in it.
So what I want to do is, make this old hard drive a complete 500 gb storage device and remove the windows installation from it, without loosing music, videos, etc. and then lastly
copying the music and other media to the new hard drive, and formatting it completely.
I am perhaps making this very complicated, I know you would have better easier solution for this.
I am frustrated, your help would be appreciated, thanks a lot. Sincerely, Abe

Since you don't want to clone the drive (I agree with you), you can just swap drives and install Windows on the new drive. Windows won't complain that you are installing on a different drive because it only cares if you change more than one piece of hardware at a time. The problem will arise when you copy the files from the old drive because you cannot just connect it via SATA. That would confuse Windows, as both installations were run on that hardware. You need to mount it in an external dock via USB 2.0/3.0 which will isolate the details of the OS. After you copy all necessary files, you can use WDC Lifeguard to write zeros to the entire disk and then create a new partition. After that you can mount it via SATA because it will be a new drive. Do NOT be in a hurry to wipe the drive however, as you don't want to forget something.

Removing Windows 8 from my MacBook Pro?

Hello,
I currently have windows eight installed on my partition. I want to uninstall it so I will be able to run it with parallel desktop. Parallel currently does not support Windows 8 from Bootcamp.
My question is in order to erase windows 8 what format should I click on? As shown in the screenshot. It was originally highlighted on the last selection ( windows) however, it will not give me the option to erase.
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Jonathan

Use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the partition, your disc will be returned to as it was before the partition was made, do not use Disk Utility.

Removal of stand from 24" Imac

We removed the stand from our 24" Imac and the flange where we attached the bracket for the bracket mount did not stay out and went back into the computer. We need to know how to get the flange back out to attach the bracket. Anyone know?

Thank you Elmac for your response. I am sorry I did not ask please. Things have been stressful around my house today. The back of the computer was scratched trying to get the flange out. I tried to go on the link you sent about the Vesa but it would not take me anywhere. Is there any other link that might help. Thank you for your help.

Print from printer connected to pc with windows 7 from a imac

I have a pc with windows 7 and a HP Deskjet f300 series printer connected to it.
I would like to print from my iMac. Help please.

There are a number of requirements with the Windows 7 and Mac OS X setup. If one of these requirements is not met, then the printing will not be successful.
*Windows 7 Setup*
Windows 7 introduced a new sharing feature called HomeGroup that is supposed to replace the workgroup for home networking. However, the feature only works for Windows 7 connected to other Windows 7. Therefore, if the Windows 7 computer has been configured to use HomeGroup, the first thing you need to do is detach Windows 7 from the HomeGroup.
The next setting is the network profile for Windows 7 computer. Windows 7 provides four network profiles; Home, Work, Public and Domain. Based on the network location you choose, Windows assigns a network discovery state to the network and opens the appropriate Windows firewall ports for that state. Ideally the computer should be set to the Home or Work profile.
With the network profile selected, another setting within the profile that can hinder the discovery of the shared printer is the network discovery setting. With this setting turned off, the Windows 7 computer will not appear under the respective workgroup (or if the setting has been changed after the computer was seen by the Mac, then it can appear in the workgroup computer list but will not show any shared printer - this is most likely due to the LAN manager timing). This setting can be accessed via Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Advanced sharing settings.
Also, within the Advanced sharing settings for the Work or Home profile, another setting called Password protected sharing can stop the shared printer from appearing. With this setting turned on, the Win7 computer will still be seen when adding the Windows shared printer, but after selecting the Win7 computer, the shared printer is not displayed as no prompt is given to enter user account details. So this setting needs to be turned off. Then when the Win7 computer name is selected, a prompt will appear requesting user account information. The Guest account can be selected here to see the shared printer name.
*Adding the Printer*
Now that you can see the printer share, the next step is to add a printer driver that will support the printing via a Windows computer. The instruction shown above by musicwind for adding a shared Windows printer is correct, however you need to be aware that some vendor drivers do not support this type of connection. In this case you need to use a CUPS based driver, such as those provided by the Gutenprint driver set included with Snow Leopard. You may need to reload your SL disc and run the Optional Installs package to get all the Gutenprint driver for your model.
One last note. If the Gutenprint driver for your model does not exist or does not work, then you will need to install the HPIJS for Mac OS X driver suite. Ensure you read all the documentation on this page as there are three packages that need to be installed.
Hope this helps you.
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Remove LR3 completely from my iMac

I want to do a fresh install of LR3 but need to remove it from my iMac. How do I do this?

Remove Lightroom on Mac OS
In the Finder, navigate to the Applications folder.
Drag the Lightroom application to the Trash.
(Optional) Delete the preferences file, the catalog file, and other Lightroom files on your computer. For a list of those files and their default locations, see the following documents:
Preference file and other file locations | Lightroom 3.x
link: http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/manually-remove-lightroom.html
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How can I remove windows 8 from my Mac?

I use Paraells on my iMac. When I purchased a new MacBook Pro and installed parallels I downloaded a demo version of Windows 8. Huge mistake!! How do I get rid of it? Dragging it to trash doesn't work.

You uninstall Parallels & that will also remove Windows:
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How can you remove old conversations from the iMac. Even when I remove them they return when I start a new conversation with the same person. Only happens on iMac with the Beta iMessage program

How do you remove an old conversation using the Beta iMessage on an iMac. When I open a new conversation with the same person the old conversation comes back

Hi,
Previously iChat had tried a Last Chat/IM option when using Saved Transcripts - which itself was an option.
iChat has also tried "Saving" the Last Chat by leaving a Chat window open and using something similar to the Lion method of showing an app in the state is was closed in.
In Messages the option to Save Transcripts has been removed and Chats or all types are saved as a matter of course.
What this tends to mean for your iChat style Buddy Chats is that it opens all the Transcripts for that buddy as a sort of History you can scroll back through if you want (I have some Buddies with saved chats gong back to 2004)
With the Syncing of iMessages with iPhones and iPads (or Touches) then it seems this works slightly differently.
Although you can delete the chat and the contents of the Chat as separate action it is true that in the Beta as soon as you connect to the same Contact that the contents of the previous chats are shown to you.
I have found that Messages stores a data base of info on iMessages in Your Home Folder/Library/Messages
I have found that deleting this chat-db removes the "History" that keep popping up.
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Some people claim removing iMessages saved here stops the "History" reappearing.
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HT4715 I cannot access my windows computer from new iMac using remote desktop or App from App Store! I have called and received no support from apple or windows

Please help with connecting a new iMac to an office windows based computer. I have checked everything and neither apple or microsoft support remote connections live.

Try using Migration Assistant following this guide:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413#3
There is advice in this document for using Migration Assistant from Time Machine or other hard drive.

How can I remove Windows XP from my MacBook Pro?

I've tried everything I can find to get rid of Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. I have OS X 10.5.8 and, unlike later versions, BootCamp Assistant 2.0 doesn't allow the option to restore the disk. And I can't find an update to BootCamp anywhere that will work. Seems I need Snow Leopard to upgrade to 3.0.

Boot Camp has an option to remove the Windows partition provided you made the partition with Boot Camp and did not later modify it or create a third-partition on the drive.
This may work:
Open Disk Utility, select your drive in the sidebar, then click on the Partition button in the DU main window. Select the Windows partition by clicking in the Windows rectangle of the partitions display. Click on the Delete [-] button to remove the partition then click on the Apply button. Wait for DU to either complete the operation or error out. If DU removes the partition then click on the partition sizing gadget (lower right hand corner) on the main partition and drag all the way to the bottom to fill the gray space left from removing the Windows partition. Click on the Apply button and wait until the operation is completed.
If you get errors at either of the two procedures then that means the drive's RDB has been damaged or altered. In this case backup the drive, boot from the backup, erase the drive, then restore the backup.

Removing windows xp from my imac

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