How to 'deactivate' an installed app?

[bsheridan]

Ok so I have leopard 10.5.1, tried it and it had too many bugs for me so I've been using a partition on my HD running tiger.

Before updating the leopard OS to 10.5.2, is there any way I can 'deactivate' installed third party apps so as to not cause any problems with the leopard update? I still want to have the apps on my HD so as after I've updated leopard I can 'reactivate' each app to see if it causes any conflicts with the OS.
hope thats clear for everyone,

thanks, B.

 

[kfordham281]

I've never heard of such a thing but I could be proven wrong. Why don't you just remove the app(s) in question and keep their source (dmg, zip, etc)? When you're done just install them again.

 

[ltldrummerboy]

I think what they mean is remove the license from proprietary apps. Is this they case? If you still have your licenses (you should), I think you can just reenter them after the 10.5.2 update.

 

[ebel3003]

Third-party standalone applications should not conflict with an operating system update. To be honest, I don't see the point of what you want to do; deactivating applications will only prompt the application to ask you for registration information again.

 

[kfordham281]

To be honest, I don't see the point of what you want to do

My thoughts exactly. The only thing I heard of that conflicted with Leopard was APE by unsanity (and most of those were in the upgrade process).

 

[kyleaa]

Unless you are using very rare 3rd party apps, chances are problems would be documented by now.

 

[Nermal]

I think what they mean is remove the license from proprietary apps. Is this they case? If you still have your licenses (you should), I think you can just reenter them after the 10.5.2 update.

No, it's not a licensing issue (although that was my thought at first glance). What the OP wants to do is remove any third-party components that load on boot, a la the Extension Manager in OS 9.