Can't Get Rid of Application in Toolbar

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Gballa

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i deleted an app a while back, its a web filter for my kid, and i moved on to a better one. I deleted everything related to the software, and yet every time at startup, the little castle logo appears next to my other icons...how do i get rid of this. The attached file shows what i mean exactly and the circled icon is the one im referring to. Thanks guys. not sure if its attached or not....
 

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That looks like Intego's ContentBarrier. The proper way to uninstall that is to run the application's installer again and choose the "Uninstall" option. Can you do that?
 
actually, i deleted the app, and no trace of intego software is to be found when i search for content barrier or intego...
 
open activity monitor and look at all processes then look for one with a name that looks like it could belong to that app. Then search through your hard disk for whatever the name is. Then delete it. And if that doesn't work double click the task that you found in the Activity Monitor then double click it. Then click "Open Files and Ports" it'll show you that task's path. Then delete that file where ever it is.
 
Gballa said:
its not on my dock its on my toolbar at the top of the screen
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What dizzlemizzle suggested should work since your icon is in the menu bar at the top of the screen. BTW- you don't need to hold the command key to drag things off the dock (just drag them off with the mouse) but you do to remove items from the menu bar.
 
sickmacdoc said:
What dizzlemizzle suggested should work since your icon is in the menu bar at the top of the screen. BTW- you don't need to hold the command key to drag things off the dock (just drag them off with the mouse) but you do to remove items from the menu bar.
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There are certain menubar items that cannot be removed this way.
 
Absolutely-- like the stock Apple ones usually are not and can only be rearranged within the bar using the Command key. But third party icons can usually be removed this way so it is worth a shot.
 
sickmacdoc said:
Absolutely-- like the stock Apple ones usually are not and can only be rearranged within the bar using the Command key. But third party icons can usually be removed this way so it is worth a shot.
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What are you talking about? I can remove every stock icon in my toolbar other than the spotlight icon with just the command key. However two of my third party apps cannot be removed that way.
 
ok i have located the file thanks to your help, but i can not empty the trash because all of the files are in use. How would i delete them then??
 
Note: The app isnt on my list of login items, yet it still comes up at login before i can delete it.
 
Gballa said:
ok i have located the file thanks to your help, but i can not empty the trash because all of the files are in use. How would i delete them then??
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You need to kill the process using Activity Monitor. Then you can delete it.
 
ok the process was killed and the icon disappeared from the toolbar, but i still cant empty the trash....
 
restart computer then try to empty trash. also reinstall the app and download appcleaner. it's a free app uninstaller. it gets rid of everything for you. you might have missed something the first time manually deleting it.
 
Just to be clear, in Mac OS X, that bar at the top is called a menubar not a toolbar. Continue on... :)
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
If after a restart you still can't delete it open up terminal type "sudo rm /file/path/name"
then hit return.
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If you dont feel like figuring out the path, you can drag the file to the terminal window and it will fill in the path and filename.
 
Gballa said:
Great! Thanks guys, i got it fixed...now to try to forward ports on a cisco router (no idea)
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to do that (change settings of the router), you need to type in the ip address of your computer.. ie; http://192.xxx.xx.x.x or whatever it is. That is how i chnaged the setings on my linskys (cisco) wireless to put a password lock on it.
 
HBOC said:
to do that (change settings of the router), you need to type in the ip address of your computer.. ie; http://192.xxx.xx.x.x or whatever it is. That is how i chnaged the setings on my linskys (cisco) wireless to put a password lock on it.
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I think he means an actual cisco router, which uses unix-like terminal commands.
 
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