Can I delete Finder?

[adumbmacuser]

Hi, my mac has been really snailish lately and I notice a program called Finder is taking up lots of memories can I wipe it from hard drive please?

[yippy]

Haha, no. Finder is what you use to browse/move/copy your files. Without finder, well, you can't do much of anything on your computer.

[Guiyon]

Sure, go ahead. I'd just be sure have your restore disks on hand before you attempt it though, you'll need 'em afterwards.

[flopticalcube]

Hi, my mac has been really snailish lately and I notice a program called Finder is taking up lots of memories can I wipe it from hard drive please?
How much memory is it taking?

[adumbmacuser]

How much memory is it taking?
hi i dunno how does i figure this one out

[yellow]

A restart should fix that. You've restarted right?

[adumbmacuser]

A restart should fix that. You've restarted right?
i think so thats when you quit everything and are on desktops rite

[yellow]

No.

Apple menu -> Restart...

wait.

This is an April Fool's joke.

You got me. :D

[Catfish_Man]

Amusingly, despite the april-fools nature of the question, you can actually have another program launch instead of the Finder. My brother used Terminal as his "Finder" for a month or two.

[adumbmacuser]

No.

Apple menu -> Restart...

wait.

This is an April Fool's joke.

You got me. :D
haha, that workd but my freind says thats stupid his linux computer has run without reboot for 1000 yeers

[techfreak85]

rotfol!
hahaha
oh, man.
i can't decide weather i like april fools or am annoyed.
oh hahaha.
:p

[Kyrahlynn]

haha, the OP's username made me grin :D

Nice one, though I'm surprised people didn't catch on sooner XD

[techfreak85]

arnt u not supposed to make more then 1 macrumors account eh?

[kornyboy]

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Great April Fools joke. Complete with poor grammar. Awesome!

[brand]

Hi, my mac has been really snailish lately and I notice a program called Finder is taking up lots of memories can I wipe it from hard drive please?

How much memory is it taking?

hi i dunno how does i figure this one out

How can you say that Finder is taking up lots of memory if you don't even know how to figure out much it is taking up? Sounds like you really don't know what your talking about.

If this is in fact an April Fools Joke then it should be deleted and you should be suspended from making posts for a period of time.

[techfreak85]

How can you say that Finder is taking up lots of memory if you don't even know how to figure out much it is taking up? Sounds like you really don't know what your talking about.

If this is in fact an April Fools Joke then it should be deleted and you should be suspended from making posts for a period of time.

dude chill, its april fools. its fine. even macrumors is playin with us a little.
look on the sidebar. if u hover over all those icons its says

A P R I L 1

[adumbmacuser]

How can you say that Finder is taking up lots of memory if you don't even know how to figure out much it is taking up? Sounds like you really don't know what your talking about.

If this is in fact an April Fools Joke then it should be deleted and you should be suspended from making posts for a period of time.
hi thanx2u my freind told me taht that was the isyou, canu delete my finder4me thx

[js81]

k thx bai

(And for those who fell for it... :))
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/funny-pictures-cat-insults-your-hair.jpg

[Consultant]

Sounds like april fools.

hi i dunno how does i figure this one out

If you don't know then WHY do you think it's "taking up lots of memories"?