i made the mistake of downloading a new widget

[Roddyjb]

i downloaded the solitaire preview widget - it has been installing now for an hour. I can't seem to get rid of it?

 

[Jacksonc]

In Dashboard? It should work fine.

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Try opening Terminal. Type 'killall Dock' (without the quotes). Let me know what happens.

 

[Roddyjb]

in daashboard - it still just has a big black square with ....

powered by unity loading

in the the middle

 

[Jacksonc]

If you click the + button in the corner of your screen! it will show all your installed widgets. It will also put an X next to all the open widgets. You can close the one you don't want. Does that help?

 

[Roddyjb]

sort of, I closed the solitaire one & thought I moived it to the trash - it is still below & the mangae widgets windo is now in it's place - I am fairly new to imac u may have guessed
The little grey manage widgets window has an x upper left but nothing happens when i clic it.

 

[Jacksonc]

To remove a widget, click the + button again, and click 'manage widgets'.

Something like this should pop up.

Click the red remove button next to the solitaire widget.

 

[Roddyjb]

i did that & the soliatire widget is off my dashboard but still in the liast across the bottom the lttle grey window in your reply is still there but all the fields in it are blank and I can't get rid of it now
yours says sort by name etc. mine is all blank

 

[Jacksonc]

Did you deselect the box next to it?

 

[Roddyjb]

There is no box next to it, I have managed to take a screen shot and was going to attach it but can't work out how

 

[Jacksonc]

Is it still in the manage widgets section?

 

[Roddyjb]

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as you can see the solitaire widget is still there & now the little manage window which is all blank won't go away..

 

[Jacksonc]

In finder, type command+shift+g
Type ~/Library/widgets
The solitaire widget should be in that folder.

 

[Roddyjb]

Thanks, that worked.
The Solitaure widget was still showing loading this morning, but it is gone now.
Rod

Any chance you would know how to get my Imac to properly run my old printer?
It is an HP Deskjet 932C
I can print but the quality is not sharp enough when I print a shipping label, the bar-code can't be read.
I don't seem to be able to adjust the print quality.
If I fire up my dying laptop, the print quality is fine on the same printer.

Rod

 

[Jacksonc]

Thanks, that worked.
The Solitaure widget was still showing loading this morning, but it is gone now.
Rod

Any chance you would know how to get my Imac to properly run my old printer?
It is an HP Deskjet 932C
I can print but the quality is not sharp enough when I print a shipping label, the bar-code can't be read.
I don't seem to be able to adjust the print quality.
If I fire up my dying laptop, the print quality is fine on the same printer.

Rod

I'm not sure. When you click File>Print, the print menu should have a way to change that. If you can't figure it out, you could start a new thread.

 

[Roddyjb]

Ok,
I'll start a new thread.
Thanks for all your help!
Rod